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In Fremont, she heard someone freak out that they’d never get their mail again, since postal workers didn’t go to low-income neighborhoods.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Experts refer to this as “fixed travel demand,” which is essentially an oxymoron, because travel demand is almost by definition not fixed. We are always deciding whether a trip is worth taking before we take it. One of the major factors in that decision-making process is how long the trip will take. TDMs work the exact opposite way by assuming that if people want to go somewhere they will. Only then will they calculate how long it will take.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
It was not until 2002 that, at the behest of the technocratic mayor Michael Bloomberg, the U.S. Senate passed the Clinton-Schumer amendment, which allowed the city to tow diplomats’ cars and instructed the State Department to deduct the unpaid fines from U.S. government aid. Parking violations plummeted.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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