Sometimes I really don't understand. Is this road built to be opened, or is it built to charge a toll?
Road maintenance fees, fuel taxes, vehicle and vessel taxes, and the monthly salary were all handed over to the four wheels before I even had time to warm them up. Now there is a "congestion charge" popping up. It sounds like you have just paid to enter a restaurant. Before you sit down and start eating, the waiter comes over and says, sir, you have to pay for the air because sitting does not cause congestion.
After paying the road maintenance toll, should I then collect the traffic congestion toll?
That’s a damn good question.
It's like buying an annual pass to the gym, but you have to insert coins every time you use the treadmill. From a rational point of view, it is said that this is to encourage you to "use it rationally" and avoid always occupying the machine. But the problem is, doesn’t the annual fee I pay already cover the maintenance costs of these devices?
Committee member Cai Jianguo once stated that the content was quite direct. If the behavior of collecting money is continued, the people will curse. And doesn’t this situation actually fall into the category of lazy government?
Can a congestion charge alleviate traffic congestion?
That thing was only introduced in New York at the beginning of this year. At its peak, you had to charge $27 to enter Manhattan. The official data is quite good. Traffic volume has been reduced by 11%, the air has become cleaner, and there is money to build subways.
So what is the result? I read a report where a barbershop owner in Manhattan's Chinatown almost cried. In the past, regular customers in New Jersey would come for a haircut once a month, but now they only dare to come once every three months because the cost of going to the city is too expensive. There is also Mrs. Chen who works in Manhattan. She has to pay $9 a day and is still stuck in traffic for more than an hour when she gets home from get off work.
Isn’t this nonsense?
The money was collected, and as a result, the situation that should have been blocked remained blocked. It's just that the pain of "encountering a traffic jam" has been transformed into a double blow of "having to spend money and encountering a traffic jam".
Is the congestion charge another kind of "lazy policy"?
I particularly agree with what Commissioner Chen Zhongqiang said - it is unclear what the main cause of congestion is.
Is it a planning issue? The road network is designed like a spider web. How can there be no congestion? Or maybe it's a management issue. Incident handling is as slow as a snail. How can it not be blocked?
If everything is solved by charging, then what should managers do? In the future, if there are a large number of children going to school, a "crowded classroom fee" will be charged, and the hospital queue time will be long and a "waiting time fee" will be charged. Wouldn't the world become simpler in this way?
There is a word called "lazy politics", which refers to this.
Can the "miracle medicine" from London and Singapore cure Beijing's disease?
I have to admit that congestion charges in London and Singapore seem to be effective. However, behind that thing is a complete bus system to support it. The density of the subway is like a spider web. When you get off the bus, you can walk there in five minutes.
How are we doing? In many cities, you have to rely on shared bicycles for the last mile of the subway, and you have to drive when it’s windy or rainy. Charging congestion charges under such circumstances will, to put it bluntly, force people to spend more money and enjoy worse quality services.
There is an academic study, which is quite interesting. It shows that when the number of electric vehicles increases in the future, fuel taxes will no longer be collected and there will be no tax. Congestion charges will be used to fill this funding gap. To put it simply, the government also needs to obtain funds to maintain operations. If this part of the tax revenue is gone, it will always have to be found from other places.
The toll-free expressway is jammed with traffic, so can it be passed by tolling?
You might as well think about the scene when highways are toll-free on holidays. The traffic is so jammed that it comes to a complete standstill. Why is this? The reason is that when the free policy was implemented, everyone held the idea that "if you don't leave, this opportunity will be wasted."
On the other hand, can charging really make people stop driving?
Rich people don't care about those tens of dollars, while poor people are forced to travel by bus. The final result is that the roads may indeed become less congested than before, because poor people no longer have the ability to set foot on the roads. Is this situation fair?
Academician Zhong Nanshan said that charging congestion charges can reduce the frequency of car trips, which is beneficial to the control of PM2.5. I agree that there is indeed a possibility that the air will become better when the number of vehicles decreases. However, why should such a price be imposed on ordinary office workers to bear?
I still said the same thing. If the manager can't think of any other way except charging, then wouldn't it make no difference if a pig takes that position?
Anyway, pigs can't do such complicated things, they can only hum.
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