@Aradia@mastodon.social @mawr No, but by cutting parking, the hope is to convince more people that public transit is a better option, and the increased rider demand will force a reversal in that trend.
Capitalism weirds this particular policy decision because its incentives look backward. They're trying to increase transit ridership by limiting the options for drivers. Because people expect public transit to be profitable, rather than run as a public good, they have to limit alternatives to make it viable.
@Aradia@mastodon.social @mawr If they could embrace transit as a public good and collected a token quarter on all routes, or even a quarter a zone, then jacked the rates on car tabs to cover the cost of public transit and launched Tim Eyman into Jupiter, we wouldn't have to eliminate parking because people would be financially incentivized to seek alternatives to cars. Because we can't do that, we have to play games with other aspects of policy to drive the same resuls.
