Been living in Germany, Norway and the UK, and I always felt that the best system is to provide good public transportation for an affordable price, subsidised by road tolls. And provide lots of (free) parking space at good connection points for commuters from areas where public transport isn't as convenient.
The road tolls need to act to deter people from driving who don't need to. It should make people consider public transportation - while at the same time making the road less congested for the people who choose to pay for driving.
First step of introducing something like this would have to be to create parking and good public transportation before the congestion points and enable tolls...
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Been living in Germany, Norway and the UK, and I always felt that the best system is to provide good public transportation for an affordable price, subsidised by road tolls. And provide lots of (free) parking space at good connection points for commuters from areas where public transport isn't as convenient. The road tolls need to act to deter people from driving who don't need to. It should make people consider public transportation - while at the same time making the road less congested for the people who choose to pay for driving. First step of introducing something like this would have to be to create parking and good public transportation before the congestion points and enable tolls...