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When there is adequate infrastructure then there should just be a ban period.

You are deeply unserious if your proposal is just "ban all cars lulz".

What these policies achieve is to provide the rich with privileges that regular people can't enjoy.

Congestion pricing and paid parking have objectively reduced traffic in downtowns across the world, and you are deeply unserious if you want to achieve a goal but refuse to do anything to work towards that goal.

You are seriously advocating for the massive subsidization of drivers here. I do not weep for the ability of the common man to impose massive externalities on their fellow men and have their behavior be subsidized.

Cars are a luxury good that most people simply cannot afford without massive subsidies. Consider how in Hong Kong and Singapore, where cars aren't subsidized, only the rich can afford to drive. Do you think that this is wrong? Should Hong Kong and Singapore bulldoze their cities and pave over paradise so that poor people can drive too?

You are acting as if driving cars is a God-given right that poor people are being denied. There is no such right to drive a car. The private automobile is a luxury good that would have never spread to the masses if not for massive government subsidies. Driving is not a civil right.

The real solution is to invest in building public transit infrastructure, to design cities to be walkable.

We are talking about Paris here. Paris has the best public transit infrastructure in the world. Paris is highly walkable.

People who drive downtown have no excuse for their actions and must be penalized accordingly.

When London implemented congestion pricing, it significantly improved traffic and encouraged people to take transit. You are completely ignoring reality if you oppose congestion pricing on the basis of it being ineffective.

Let's cut to the chase: do you oppose congestion pricing?

Do you oppose congestion pricing because it "hurts the working poor" and that it's just a "performative gesture"?

When giant SUVs are only accessible to the rich anyways, then the whole premise of tripling parking fees is meaningless to begin with.

Driving your car seems free because you've already paid for it yesterday at the pump. Expensive parking puts a real, visible price on driving that you have to confront every single day.

The rich doesn't solely consist of Jeff Bezos and co. Most people who drive luxury SUVs cannot afford tripled parking prices in the city every day. And even if they could, this forces them to reconsider their habits and maybe take the train next time.

And yes, I'm against the idea of trying to solve the problem using a tax because it's a performative measure that accomplishes nothing of real value while distracting from real solutions.

This is not a performative measure, this is the real solution. Driving needs to become multiple times more expensive, and a tripled parking price is a good place to start. Drivers are heavily subsidized by society and this subsidy needs to end, and these taxes are the first step in that direction.

I believe this accomplishes about as much as carbon taxes.

You can't be fucking serious lol.

One electric car is better than one gasoline car, because electric cars don't fart toxic gases into the air where everyone's trying to breathe.

I'd take 10 electric cars over 7 gasoline fart cans any day of the week.

Are you against any sort of tax for oversized vehicles? Do you also believe that congestion pricing "hurts poor people"?

Also, giant SUVs are only accessible to the rich anyways. No poor person is driving around an Audi Q8 or a Cadillac Escalade, they take the train.

Tubular (how does this differ from MP x SB?)

NewPipe x Sponsorblock is dead and Tubular is the continuation of it by the same author.

Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the drama.

the impression i got is that soydevs are developers who create or use bloated apps or websites

use NewPipe if you're on Android

As I understand it, China just has cameras on every street because their goal is to decrease traffic violations and not just generate ticket revenue.

This is correct. Traffic cameras are present on basically every street, and they are highly visible, preceded by a road sign, and your GPS audibly tells you about them. They also flash at you.

China also has a better implementation of red light cameras. Green lights start flashing a few seconds before they turn yellow, allowing you to either make it across the intersection or slow down in time.

The widespread implementation of automatic traffic enforcement cameras in China objectively has decreased traffic violations. Compare driving in China in 2008 to 2024. It is a night and day difference.

I agree with your assessment about American traffic enforcement being more about collecting an informal tax than actually being about improving road safety (see: speed traps). In the UK (which this article is about), the speed cameras do flash (and thus provide immediate feedback).