Perhaps...but it sounds an awful lot like proposals to force people to the city.
What do they expect people to do? NOT drive to work? Not everyone lives 3 minutes from a Metro stop!
This is another idiot scheme cooked up by Socialists to force people into behavior they approve of. The proponents of this 'plan' should be dragged into the streets, tarred and feathered, and then run out of town on a rail.
when we buy gas, when we register our cars, tolls, etc.
Unless stopped, the socialists won't stop until they get 90% of our income in taxes and fees. THEY, who produce NOTHING, and get double and more in their pay checks and the very best of benefits - all paid from OUR POCKETS look upon OUR paychecks as THEIR money -
‘tis a puzzlement.
Fixed.
Transportation i.e. efficient - and ACCEPTABLE TO USERS - means of moving people and goods seems to be well down the list of priorities to these so-called officials. Instead, they pursue one square-peg-round-hole 'solution' after another.
The idea creating payment to tax payers to file, is being floated as a "what-if" scenario by officials.
There fixed it!
The ONLY thing this would do is create heavy traffic on side streets resulting in lots more road construction to widen streets ( do I smell more union pay-offs? )
It just shows how brilliant the folks that plan road construction projects are: “Let’s work on every single road at the exact same time!”
Oh wait - It’s an election year, so in reality it’s just another ploy to make the taxpaying suckers think their tax dollars are actually being used for something instead of paying for illegal aliens and their anchor babies.
Instead the Progressive Fascist political machine can simply quit skimming money off those funds to pay for their "green" mass transit schemes.
If these "Mass Transit" schemes are so desirable, they should be justifiable to the votes as stand alone projects instead of being the hidden parasites living off the gas tax fund.
Growth of centralized government means increased traffic congestion for DC.
What is the traffic like in DC on a day that is a Federal holiday?
How about we just cut down the size of government and all those bureaucrats to ease the traffic problems?
People are now considered a sort of tolerated infection or parasite on government. We exist at their pleasure only insofar as useful to the collection of revenue.
Firing 2/3 of the bureaucrats would solve ALL their congestion problems.
We pay through the nose now, it’s caklled GAS TAXES, ?State and Federal!
They are probably higher now but in 1974 they were 86% from ground to pump!!
I sort of don’t care, because you shouldn’t have to be wealthy to drive on the roads in this country.
As everyone points out, our tax dollars do pay for the roads.
On the other hand, the scarce good here is the right of way. A highway can only hold so many cars at peak hour. The only two ways to decide who gets the scarce good is by seeing who is willing to wait in traffic (allocating by time) or seeing who is willing to pay (allocating by cost.) Most economists would argue that allocating by cost is more efficient. I am surprised by the freeper opposition.
The point of those making the existing tax argument is well taken, but currently 25-33% of useable roadway is accessible only to multi-occupant vehicles. And in the case of I-66, 100% inaccessible to single-occupant vehicles at peak times.
We already pay...It’s called a gas tax.
IOW a stealth road tax.
what would help congestion is “autodrive” cars where these senile or clueless drivers who don’t know where they are or what they are doing can have a GPS computer drive the car for them.
We have cars that self park, we should already have cars that self drive.
That would reduce traffic and accidents around 20-30%, I'd bet.
Traffic congestion in the DC area could be thinned substantially by sharp cuts in the size of the Federal Government.