http://inhabitat.com/spanish-city-offers-lifetime-tram-passes-in-exchange-for-cars/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Mon, 20 May 2013 06:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/spanish-city-offers-lifetime-tram-passes-in-exchange-for-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-345677 lazyreader Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:17:24 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=275750#comment-345677 I'm not so utterly convinced it's wise to give passes in exchange for their cars. The cars are placed, and then slowly disassembled meaning their taking cars off the market. Just like Americas miserable cash for clunkers, sure it gave people the incentive to buy cars but they would have bought them anyway. It also hurt low income people by significantly raising the price of used cars. Transit is not cheap...........You start out with the fact your running transit all day when it's mainly used during rush hour and the fact your running it through low density neighborhoods so it's empty most of the way until you get to the city center. An expensive format, that's why you don't want high occupancy transit, you want low occupancy transit or small box as it's called. Santiago, Chile had a privately owned, profit generating transit. Consisting of individuals owning vehicles. You call it shared taxis they called them Collectivo's which offered door to door transit. The left wing government decided to outlaw that and eventually built public bus and rail. They lost most of their passengers, pissed off the residents and ultimately the left wing government was voted out of office because of that. I’m not so utterly convinced it’s wise to give passes in exchange for their cars. The cars are placed, and then slowly disassembled meaning their taking cars off the market. Just like Americas miserable cash for clunkers, sure it gave people the incentive to buy cars but they would have bought them anyway. It also hurt low income people by significantly raising the price of used cars. Transit is not cheap………..You start out with the fact your running transit all day when it’s mainly used during rush hour and the fact your running it through low density neighborhoods so it’s empty most of the way until you get to the city center. An expensive format, that’s why you don’t want high occupancy transit, you want low occupancy transit or small box as it’s called. Santiago, Chile had a privately owned, profit generating transit. Consisting of individuals owning vehicles. You call it shared taxis they called them Collectivo’s which offered door to door transit. The left wing government decided to outlaw that and eventually built public bus and rail. They lost most of their passengers, pissed off the residents and ultimately the left wing government was voted out of office because of that.

]]> http://inhabitat.com/spanish-city-offers-lifetime-tram-passes-in-exchange-for-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-345616 teamjeffo Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:19:54 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=275750#comment-345616 Then why is the top picture of an Australian freeway? :) Then why is the top picture of an Australian freeway?

]]> http://inhabitat.com/spanish-city-offers-lifetime-tram-passes-in-exchange-for-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-345615 teamjeffo Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:19:05 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=275750#comment-345615 Then why is the top picture of an Australian freeway? :) Then why is the top picture of an Australian freeway?

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