@alanthefisher These pictures are just effective on social media. What actually makes them cities of the future is their trains, bikeability, cleanliness, and green spaces. It’s more difficult to capture that though.
@williammerkin@Mike_from_PA@HypeHouseGOP A more interesting (and actually valid) takeaway is that we should be charging a higher pricing to use roads, which right now are free, if we want to maximize social benefits.
@williammerkin@Mike_from_PA@HypeHouseGOP It doesn’t say the optimal bus fare is negative (I wish it did). It says if your only fiscal lever was setting transit fares, you should set bus fares to negative in order to divert people away from cars, which have a higher social cost than additional bus users (which is zero)