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Why gas prices are so high and what to expect in the fall
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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It's things like this that make me wish public transportation was more prevalent in Alberta. I'm sure the cost would rise a bit but its way less than taking care of a car and filling it for $2/L every week.
Over 60 years the cost of taxes to build and maintain a transit system plus fares is an order of magnitude lower than building highway networks, ownership of personal vehicles, insurance, fuel, and rebuilding the road network after 30 years.
The idea that transit is more expensive was a mind trick by the fossil fuel and automotive industries. We’re penny wise and dollar foolish.
A big problem is now fixing our land use, zoning, and density to be serviceable by transit. Most developments since the rise of suburbia have been extremely car centric and low density which can be hurdles in creating effevtive transit networks.
People are also going to have to accept that building transit will require taking some priority away from cars in some areas (reduced parking, reduced lanes, lower speeds) and this is generally viewed as bad because people already hate being in their cars in existing traffic.
That's okay. Make driving a little more painful will discourage it, as long as other options also become available and less painful.