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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
In what world do you live in that increasing the cost of living causes MORE people to move in, rather than out?
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^ In
our world. Some countries actually see value in cutting the subsidy for one form of transportation to increase the usage of another one that is 1) already costing a shitload of money to maintain, and 2) being underutilized.
Great example from just a few posts up:
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Originally Posted by muppet
London-
4. The Congestion Charge charges drivers $8 a day to enter the central city, and alleviates traffic by 25%. It increases usage of public transport too -
rising to 6 million a day on London buses and 3.4 million on the underground. Overall London Underground sees in a 300 million rise in passengers
over the decade, to over 1 billion a year.
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^ That's all you need--proof's in the pudding that such policy works. I'm all happy for London, but reading muppet's whole post just KILLS me. America just totally sucks, sucks, sucks in its inability to get its shit together and actually invest in its cities.