I am forced to drive a car by the enviromental factors and also me voting the "force me to drive a car" party at every election
don't @ me about vooooooooooooating
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and the train needs to fucking run and it needs to be cheaper than two people in a car.
i had a situation where there was a train but the last one was at 10pm and the event i'd want to go to in the city went until 10:30 99% of the time. But it gets worse, even if a trip fit during operating hours two tickets was more expensive than gas and depreciation so we'd drive, and it was about the same time door to door because walking is slow af and the train had a few stops.
Is that because parking is so heavily subsidised? Because really driving into the city should also have a parking cost that will make it rival train prices.
i think there was some compounding factors where local trains were good enough that there was relatively little parking demand in the city, especially not in old dense semi-residential neighborhoods.
i don't know all the details but i think vehicle taxes covered street parking.