Road design, transportation and walkability

[danbrotherston]

We've been through this before, all of the problems with transit you list are choices.  If we cars a toll per passenger, and transit was free and communities were designed transit first, and cars last (basically the opposite situation we have today) you've be arguing building a highway is stupid because it doesn't work for most people.

A lot of good points. I just want to pick on one particular point: I can’t see any justification for tolling per passenger. The impact of the car on the road and on others is not affected by how many people it is carrying, unless you count the trivial difference in wear resulting from different amount of weight (and if that is the basis for the charge, it should be per unit weight, including vehicle, goods, and occupants).

Doesn't have to make sense, for that matter, it could simply to create an equivalence to transit, that's why I pointed it out here.

Frankly though, I'd take any automobile pricing right now, but to solve the family cost, transit pricing structures should be rethought.