re: #99 Dark_Falcon

By the way, that author is kind of ridiculous.

The federal government could also give cities incentives to build express toll roads that charge a premium for usage, alleviating congestion on free roads.

Where the fuck do you put the express toll road in a city? It’s a city. Is he proposing we level a ton of buildings and make cross-city toll highways? What about when the demographics of the city shift and the roads no longer service the right areas?

That’s one of the dumber ideas I’ve ever heard to reduce congestion. There would be the same number of cars; congestion could only go down if you built more roads. Anywhere that has a congestion problem has property far too valuable to make into new roads unless vitally necessary, and if you did make it into new roads making them toll would do nothing more to reduce congestion than not making them toll.

That’s a really bizarre, obvious mistake for that guy to make. Why do you like him?