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Originally Posted by aberkok
Baraka Guru, isn't there a tiny one near your apartment?
I say, forget about managing traffic by building more things: tax cars more heavily.
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I can safely say that taxing cars more heavily does offer a way of managing traffic but it does not get rid of it.
I live in a place that has a tax on the purchase of cars that amounts to 100% of the purchase price. In addition to this, fuel is expensive and many of the roads are toll roads (all cars must have a transponder so that when they drive under a gantry it charges them automatically). Owning a car here is *really* expensive.
The Suzuki Swift that I owned in Toronto cost me about C$21,000 (more or less). Here, that same car goes for S$52,000 (about C$40,000).
With all of that, there is still a heck of a lot of traffic on the roads.
That said, we also have a great transit system and more taxis per capita than any other country.