It could be used as a framework for labor camps where people are paid dirt cheap wages and offered compensation in the form of shitty on site accommodations. They could let a foriegn investor build a factory to their nation’s standards (or no standards at all) and apply loose labor laws to their workers. This is extreme, but somewhat possible under this legislation.
Do you have a source for those numbers? Id be surprised if the fuel +registration taxes cover even 1/3 of the cost of roads. Maybe they could cover basic maintaince like painting, plowing, and potholes, but initial construction or resurfacing likely needs heavy investment from elsewhere
Edit: i see the OP does have a source for tax revenue numbers, but it is unclear exactly what is covered under the taxes. Does it include funds for police for traffic enforcement? Funding for emergency services responding to accidents? The site isn’t clear if new road construction or lane widening is included in the budgets as road maintaince or not.
The point being made isnt that roads aren’t worth the investment, its more so that everyone pays for roads regardless of the amount of use they get out of them, but that same investment into cycling paths, bus lanes, or trains is viewed as “government subsidies” or “wasting money on infrastructure that won’t be used by drivers”.
Most automated camera tickets for buses, red lights, or speeding only result in municipal fines and no insurance complications. The camera can reliably get the lisence plate but the tech and bureaucracy isn’t ready to prove who was driving each car.
Comparing self driving cars to American driving standards is kinda a moot point because the american safety standards are so low that death and injury is considered the cost of doing business.
I’d be curious to see how well waymo performs compared to a country with far safer road designs and drivers that are better trained and respect rules of the road more frequently.
One could argue it is safe in reasonable moderation. CHS devlops due to extreme and excessive daily use of cannabis. Enjoying a joint every now and then is far safer than toking every 30 minutes.
If i ate 30 chocolate bars everyday for weeks on end, I’d have some serious health issues, but one every weekend would be nearly unnoticeable from a health perspective.
I was also thinking strapped to the ceiling would be the safest
Then people see this and go “see no one uses the train so why should my tax dollars go to fund it”
Imagine if we let drivers have 1 day per week to use the highway, suddenly they might not think their taxs are worth it for the service they are getting.
Everything is driving distance and simultaneously, America is “too big” for high speed rail
Given they are suspended over water, it may actually be better to not have the harness. If the whole thing were to tip the harness could get tangled and keep someone trapped under water.
Road budgets and projects go way over all the time and the vast majority of those projects still go through.
His excuses for what is causing congestion are statistically wrong, he blames the solutions to congestion as the causes.
The province has hinted at planing some other transit projects so lets cancel new projects that would work better in unison.
He explicitly states that new solutions cannot slow down private automobiles, despite them be unfairly catered to for decades while every other transportation method is left underfunded, unreliable, and is already much slower than private automobiles.
He then has the audacity to claim this will lead to amore inclusive solution when he is explicitly excluding cyclists from safe infrastructure.
Flaring is much better than just letting the methane escape so it would be a better solution than doing nothing and would be a great stepping stone to a more permanent option. Flaring would be much cheaper than a methane generator or capture device.
If only those companies were wealthy enough to do something about it. I guess our only choice is let the tazpayer handle it.
But public transport is COMMUNISM. Someone needs to be profiting!
What the hell is up with your trains where it takes 55 minutes to go 20kms?
Bikes do not contribute to congestion and most places actually experience less congestion when a bike lane is built (cause thats 1 less person that needs to be in a car). I’m so sick of the “we can’t build bike lanes, transit, sidewalks etc because it causes congestion” excuse.
Temu is more like a capitalism network than a social network, but yeah Chad Bulgaria playing tetris instead of giving into consumerism.
Public transit is a service, and should be funded like a public service rather than for profit. A downside i can see to this would be a city refusing to upgrade or fund their own transit, letting Uber fill the gap and letting uber decide the pricing, which will eventually result in much higher pricing than a publicly funded system.
Publicly funded systems can also take advantage of city planning, like where specific stops can be, requiring certain developments to build a bus stop, and providing bus rapid transit lanes & priority signals to ensure buses remain on schedule.
The savings might even be so significant you won’t even have to find a way to replace the lost revenue.
We can build mines for EVs without disrespecting indigenous rights and ignoring environmental concerns that future generations will pay the price for.