Yeah, making driving shit is much cheaper and easier than spending money on making mass transit cheap, convenient and comfortable. Plus, peopke with children and disabled people who depend on their cars will suffer and will probably be less mobile as a result. Still, fuck them eh? Shouldn’t be disabled if they want to get around.
Now you're just being silly. Those are the direct measures that we know to actually work to get people out of their cars and they're not going to get implemented widespread because in some locations they're regressive, and politically a disaster (though blue badge holders are exempt from most congestion and toll charges).
I don't know why you're intent on attacking them like they're my proposal.
Building transit systems isn't a very effective measure alone to getting people out of cars. Neither is incentivising those transport systems. The most effective way we know is to disincentivise auto use and provide a reliable alternative. If you can find ways that aren't regressive to disincentivise auto-use then great, I'm all for that as part of an overall strategy. Personal autos are a vital mode and will continue to be.
Potentially the single most powerful solution to reducing unnecessary auto use is the simplest one: car-sharing. It's just not realised anything like its potential, yet. But the kids don't care about car ownership the way we used to, they want convenience and value, so the transport industry should tap into that and revolutionise vehicle ownership over the next decade
