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Originally Posted by GGG
With any kind of congestion based road toll you would expect a corresponding reduction in Civic, provinicial and federal taxes. So for people who drive an average amount in average congestion there should be no change in your total fees. You would just be much more aware of the cost and have control over the cost therefore there would be incentive to reduce that cost. Any changes should be revenue neutral.
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Moving beyond tolls/congestion prices in the transportation realm, for people to experience a "revenue neutral" effect of any of the package of solutions being put forward, people/families will have to make other changes, which is partly the point. In many ways, the "suburb subsidy" can often be viewed as a "lifestyle subsidy." It won't result in people moving from 2 storey single-family houses in Evanston to 1-bedroom 500 sf. apartments in Eau Claire, but it may mean that people who otherwise would have lived in this in Silverado:
would end up living in (and actually have some options in terms of availibility) this:
Possibly still in Silverado
or this:
In a redeveloped community that is located somewhere more sensible.
Either way, it should result in people not living where they ought not to have been living (in terms of either size/type of housing, where that housing is located in the urban geography, or both). Unless of course they are willing to pay for that otherwise unnecessary lifestyle that could be classified as a want-to-have.