Mobility pricing is in Metro Vancouver, where workers have been forced out to the valley by #vanre greed with very limited public transit options, has 2 aims:
1. Keep the riffraff off the roads so the rich can enjoy a smooth ride from their suburban mansions to the core #vanpoli
1. Keep the riffraff off the roads so the rich can enjoy a smooth ride from their suburban mansions to the core #vanpoli
2. Turn roads from public infrastructure to a "transport market" that can then be easily privatized for profit.
But to sell their project, the neoliberals will argue that congestion pricing is the only solution to funding better transit.
#vanpoli
But to sell their project, the neoliberals will argue that congestion pricing is the only solution to funding better transit.
#vanpoli
A pioneer of mobility pricing is British economist Alan Walters, who ended up being the economic advisors to the mother of callous neoliberalism: Margaret Thatcher.
#vanpoli
iea.org.uk/blog/alan-walt…
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iea.org.uk/blog/alan-walt…
Along with the renter parking tax, this is all part of @CityofVancouver's woke war on the working class.
#vanpoli
#vanpoli
@CityofVancouver Remember, @CityofVancouver's plan with street parking fees was to privatize the streets and hand it over to @EasyParkVan, as they have already done with surface lots.
Yes, that EasyPark.
Yes, that EasyPark.
https://twitter.com/rohanarezel/status/1431433988493750275
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