Comments on CityKin: Raise My Taxes, Please!

love you 5chw4r7z, you right-leaning transit suppo...

2010-03-05T08:26:53.017-05:00

love you 5chw4r7z, you right-leaning transit supporter you

I've seen estimates that say total cost of ownersh...

2010-03-04T15:23:42.263-05:00

I've seen estimates that say total cost of ownership for a car is $400 a month which once I thought about it, sounds reasonable. gas, oil, maintenance, insurance, parking, and I bet a bunch of nickels and dimes and I haven't even thought of.

factor in the cost of parking which the government subsidizes more than medicare and there is a huge social burden to car ownership.

The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup, an urban planning professor at UCLA. http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu

He reports that in 2002 between $127 billion and $374 billion a year was spent nationally to subsidize off-street parking, as much as the U.S. spent on Medicare or national defense that year

In 2007 Americans spent $78 billion in gas sitting in traffic jams, how can we not afford mass transit?

You would save a lot more than $1040 if you totall...

2010-03-04T10:10:48.725-05:00

You would save a lot more than $1040 if you totally got rid of your car.

It averages the savings by using statistics from existing areas with good transit. It is just saying that people in these areas drive less miles and have fewer cars per household...

It looks to me like this figure for savings assume...

2010-03-04T08:27:54.442-05:00

It looks to me like this figure for savings assumes that people stop paying for/buying cars and parking. That doesn't seem reasonable, especially after subsidizing the industry directly.

JFV