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Aredwood:matisyahu:
Davy: Auckland will have a population of 2 million in about ten years. It's not economic to import a fleet of cars big enough to accommodate that number along with all the fuel to run them nor to allocate enough land to accommodate them.
Public transport has to do the bulk of the job, and needs to be usable like in other modern cities of this size.
As noted on a Reddit post I made, an ideal situation would be to cap vehicle registrations at 1 million (reducing it by 100,000 every 5 years until it hits 500,000 vehicles) and with putting registrations on a 5 year rotation and auction off the limited number of registrations then use that money to build public transpiration and drive down the cost until economies of scale kick in.
The number of cars someone owns has nothing to do with how much they drive. For example, I own 2 cars. But I can only drive 1 car at a time. So if I got rid of 1 of those cars, there will still be exactly the same amount of traffic congestion. As when my cars are not being driven, they are stored on private land.
Such a policy will also delay the uptake of electric cars. As it will be difficult to own both an EV and an ICE car.
MikeAqua:matisyahu:
As noted on a Reddit post I made, an ideal situation would be to cap vehicle registrations at 1 million (reducing it by 100,000 every 5 years until it hits 500,000 vehicles) and with putting registrations on a 5 year rotation and auction off the limited number of registrations then use that money to build public transpiration and drive down the cost until economies of scale kick in.
Such a policy would motivate people to register cars at different addresses - out of town relatives etc.
Both of you have missed the point entirely - if you cap the number of registered cars on the road overall then you drive up the cost of registration through the auctioning process combined with a constricted supply. If you want to have multiple registrations then by all means do so but it'll probably end up costing you $10,000 per car per year. Regarding poor people - that is what the purpose of an auctioning process, to bring in the revenue to expand public transport and drive down the cost so it is a net benefit for low income people, reduced spending on roads and a benefit for the environment - it is a win/win for all concerned.
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