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Charlie, I support making the RPP more expensive (particularly for multi car households), but not so much that it ends up having the result of making it cheaper for people to drive to work. If there is any subsidizing going on, it's the city subsidizing people who decide to leave their car at home and take metro to work.

You could argue that this subsidizes the choice to have a car in the first place, but I believe the amount of people who would ditch their car would be far less than the number of metro riders who would switch to driving. Even at 80-90 a month, that's $4 a work day. Add that to the cost of Metro (and the current disparity of parking tax subsidies versus transit subsidies) and it's cheaper to drive for a lot of residents.

by TM on Jul 27, 2012 2:09 pm • link • report

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