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No not the 2009 version, the circa 2014 version was way nicer... see: And see: The 2009 or whatever it was version was much much worse. I don't want to post a picture of that ugly dystopian monstrosity. The 2020 design is just way too fat. The only issue I took with the 2014 design was...

Seems like the usual bait and switch. The previous design was much nicer, but probably just existed to get through some approvals.

When you have reached 95% (or more) capacity of existing infrastructure, then don't build new housing or commercial space without first building new capacity.

Was thinking about this a bit. This could certainly start with congestion zone reservation systems and autonomous vehicles. Or in ten years maybe you need to be autonomous and connected with a reservation to use the left travel lane. I don't think you need to have the entire system suddenly...

Thanks for catching my mistake. Yes, penny per mile should do it.

10,000 x 0.01 = $100 So based on a quick search that seems like it would raise about $500 million per year in taxes for local and state road maintenance.

I would put the onus on drivers to claim the miles where driven outside of Massachusetts and seek a rebate or deduction via their income tax returns. I think it makes sense in those cases to use some sort of electronic record keeping. I don't see the need to make this into some sort of massive...

Well, chances are if people are using old or antique cars then they are paying a bigger gas tax per mile... I think it works out.

I think you are both right to some degree. Wind and solar won't be sufficient. The numbers I have seen that say otherwise are all based on installed capacity rather than actual production... so you get competitive per kilowatt capacity before you actually see how much you van produce. That...

I think you can only bend over backwards so far to prevent criminal tax fraud. Most people aren't going to be putting antiques up on blocks and running them backwards to avoid a per mile odometer tax... running the engine would cost more than the tax. Or manually running it backwards some...

Just wondering why you would think I would be proposing that the odometer tax should also track location history via gps? That is what I am proposing we avoid. No, just current odometer reading minus previous odometer reading times a 0.01 cents (or whatever is needed). All the infrastructure...

The externalized costs of carbon are flooding, future food insecurity, coastal erosion, wars and refugee displacement. I don't object to this sort of gas tax, but don't pretend this in any way addresses the current or future externalized costs. This tax may provide some money for some...

Rationing road access in congested downtown areas so thousands or even tens of thousands of people aren't idling in traffic for 20 or 30 minutes every weekday. I am in favor of that sort of rationing. And artificially limiting supply is no more or less of a "free market" than artificially...

I don't oppose congestion pricing in downtown zones. But I think it has to actually be structured in a way to achieve the public good of reducing congestion, not be structured in the usual way that creates a government incentive to create more congestion so they can justify higher prices. And...

The tax on tea was going back to England and/or going to pay for red coats and royal governors and judges that were perceived as more burden to the colonials than protectors. Not going towards something the taxpayers wanted or needed. Taxes are a necessary evil. Sometimes more evil than...

I don't think it is crazy to want to see a holistic (and implementable within a realistic and sufficiently detailed budget) plan for the transportation system. I know such a thing would be difficult (and expensive) to even just create as a one off, but I have seen a lot of projects in...

+1 Yes... this. ^ This relatively newer rotary in Lynn is a good example of a well functioning rotary that seems to have overall improved traffic flow: https://goo.gl/maps/jYc45T6vuMXiFFzG6 Wish there were more like it.

Problem with that argument is that it forgets that sin taxes incentivize the people working in government that rely on the sin tax revenue to encourage the sins. I am ok with taxing things you want to discourage... except whenever you do that and create that revenue dependency then you create...

I am generally libertarian so the concept of open road tolling everywhere seems like a authoritarian police state dream come terrifyingly true where the state would be constantly tracking your movements for the purposes of taxation or whatever else. But with car electrification coming slowly...

Mostly like it. I wish they broke up the diagonals on the first few levels on Comm Ave. Maybe have a gap in the middle with just glass or switch directions half way so it didn't seem so much like a land scraper.