> Except that the result is that instead of switching to bikes or PT, people still use their cars but drive around in circles much longer which cannot be in anybody's interest.
Is there data on that? Have they made the necessary concurrent improvements to public transport? Generally, fewer private cars allows public transport (or, at least, buses and trams) to operate way more effectively.
Like, the city I live in (Dublin) has been doing this for about a decade, and the bus system in particular has gone from ‘notoriously, comically, embarrassingly bad’ to merely quite bad. It isn’t a great example, and is very much a work in progress (the latest absurdity: a bus I use from time to time now runs way faster due to private car restriction on the quays, but they haven’t gotten around to changing the schedule yet, so it sometimes just _stops_ for 10 minutes, with a helpful robot announcement indicating that it’s to keep on schedule…), but it has, to some extent, worked; people do use public transport way more, and it’s generally easier to get around the city.
Is there data on that? Have they made the necessary concurrent improvements to public transport? Generally, fewer private cars allows public transport (or, at least, buses and trams) to operate way more effectively.
Like, the city I live in (Dublin) has been doing this for about a decade, and the bus system in particular has gone from ‘notoriously, comically, embarrassingly bad’ to merely quite bad. It isn’t a great example, and is very much a work in progress (the latest absurdity: a bus I use from time to time now runs way faster due to private car restriction on the quays, but they haven’t gotten around to changing the schedule yet, so it sometimes just _stops_ for 10 minutes, with a helpful robot announcement indicating that it’s to keep on schedule…), but it has, to some extent, worked; people do use public transport way more, and it’s generally easier to get around the city.