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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Alright, I've got an idea that will earn me a hasty assassination, but someday future generations will deify me: ban personal car ownership.
Which I know sounds crazy and absolutely is, but it would be crazy awesome. It involves a major reallocation of resources, but imagine how efficiently a massively expanded transit system would work without traffic.
There's a whole lot more to unpack there and I need a few more napkins to sketch it out, but it will be great. I'm just gonna need a decade of total authoritarianism to implement it.
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How would you measure success of this policy? Average commute times? Reduction in number of trips taken? Increase in density?
I question the underlying assumption that transit can ever be faster and cheaper without the Density accompanying the great transit systems in the world. In general transit becomes faster when fitting that number of cars is no longer possible.
In areas where land is cheap like Calgary I don’t see it as an improvement. Perhaps in 50 years when city design has changed to higher density it would work be helpful but that might be a distortion due to the law rather than actually better.
I think traffic density based taxation to ensure people are paying for the real cost of infrastructure would be a much more effective policy then a ban.