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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious. [/quote]

100% agree 
-- bike commuter[/quote]

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro![/quote]

Absolutely. Along with cutting off all but non-emergency/non-disabled private cars on downtown arteries, a la Slow Streets in San Francisco.[/quote]

That's insane. Half the bars and restaurants and stores in Washington would close. Cities need people to circulate. If you make traffic impossible and the subway unusable, people will stop moving around. That's what happened in San Francisco. Museums there are worried there are going to have to close because no one uses Slow Streets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/arts/design/san-francisco-bikes-cars-museum.html[/quote]
It’s quite fascinating how impervious their ideas are to basic foundations of economics and thanks for pointing it out. [/quote]

I don't think they should go to the extreme that the PP mentions but I also disagree that it would destroy cities.
A lot of European cities have been restricting car traffic to the city center for decades yet still manage to do just fine.[/quote]
Europe is an interesting example, because GDP growth has lagged the US for my entire lifetime and I’m over 50. Meanwhile, European wages are laughable and the consumer durable goods, like washing machines, are expensive and a joke. Furthermore, the growth centers of most European cities are usually the car friendly suburbs where you have the highways and big box stores and glass office buildings, kinda like the United States. In a lot of second and third tier European cities, the older and central areas that are not as car friendly will be the areas where you find a lot of immigrants, as well as in the poor suburbs.[/quote]

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