> Test of time shows negative incentives don't work.
=v= Here's the problem, though: driving has been encouraged
for half a century in myriad ways, propped up by policy that
has discouraged all other modes, funded with untenable (and
mostly hidden) subsidy, and fueled by deadly oil wars that
have bankrupted the entire country.
=v= All that to maintain a privilege that most people see as
a norm. The truth is, we don't need to discourage driving
if we just stop encouraging it. But withdrawing any piece of
that encouragement is going to *seem* like a negative incentive,
and many of the privileged will squeal like a stuck pig when
their privilege is reduced, even a little bit.
=v= We're in a bizarre phase of history when a mother trying
to feed her children is attacked in the media coast to coast
for being "entitled," while losing a parking space is some
sort of inborn American right and proof of a War On Cars.
<_Jym_>
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