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"People were trained to love cars by Federal subsidy (e.g. Federal Highway construction, FHA subsidized mortages to back suburbanization, etc.). People can be untrained and disabused of car addiction in the same way."
Trust me. The federal government had nothing to do with the erection I got the first time I heard a ferrari 250 GTO downshift into Canada Corner at Road America. I'm in love. Are you really going to tell me, on THIS forum, that love is a choice?
I think most everything has been broached in this thread, many good points.
(to quote myself)
I posted an issue that affects people who bike, (especially those who commute) and own a vehicle. It's a catch 22, since it is the people who limit their car use that are affected the most. The majority of those who work business hours jump in their car and their car will not be parked Monday through Friday between 9 am and 3 pm.
I AM very bothered to move my car, I just completely forgot (Whole other issue)... Many useful solutions were offered and for that I am grateful. Outlawing public parking and eliminated cars not so much...maybe we should steal H.G. Wells machine and shoot Ford, or those other damned fools who instilled the idea... We are moving in the right direction and for that I am grateful.
You're spinning your wheels here, "Rick Norris".
road. The easiest way to do this is to have a car tax or "congestion tax".
London and other civilized cities are already doing it. Tax car usage heavily, on principled social/environemental/efficiency grounds, and encourage alternative transit by incentivizing that (i.e. make it run more smoothly, make it more affordable, etc.).
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