Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
These are both true because there isn't enough motivation for people to deviate from their behavior. This is a classic consequence of a freely-shared public good. If people had to pay to use roads, they would obviously be a lot less likely to commute alone, and they would be a lot more likely to use mass transit.
Bare in mind in the UK they already have to pay for the car(+ tax), MOT costs(+ tax), plus road tax (tax for having a car) regardless of whether they use the car , but even when they use it they pay for fuel (++++++ tax), parking (+ tax) and wear and tear costs/ servicing (+ tax). So in the current tax environment there is a large additional cost to deciding to drive to work. Yet still tonnes of people do it.

Why is that? Clearly it really matters to people and they find it important. As someone who has both used public transport and a personal car for commuting I for one fucking hate using public transport.

So we have ths something that loads of people really hate, and your argument is to increase the price of the solution so they hate that financial cost even more than they hate public transport. Way to make the masses happy.