It was obviously at this moment last year that the whole city was noisy around the "congestion charge". I remember this clearly. At that time, many experts were really tough. They held data from London and Singapore in their hands and acted like "you don't understand it at all. This is all for your benefit."
It's only been a year. The tide has completely changed.
As if they had made an agreement in advance, the experts suddenly stopped speaking. What remains is the curse words mixed with curse words in the neighborhood group, and the weird forwarded content in the circle of friends. Why did a prescription that was supposed to cure urban diseases turn into a street rat that everyone wanted to beat? If you think about it carefully, it's really boring.
In fact, that's the truth.
Who doesn’t have a clue?
There are only so many roads, and vehicles are pouring into them like dumplings. There are no restrictions on license plates, no restrictions on driving, and no tolls. How can we let everyone stay in their cars and play mahjong?
What I object to is the "daddy-ness". I will tell you from the very beginning that charging fees is purely for your own good. Once it makes you feel sorry for someone, you should drive less. This is an economic method, how scientific and rigorous, how fair and just.
fair?
Fairness, you talk to me about fairness?
Go to Beijing and take a look, go to Shanghai and take a look. It costs tens of thousands of yuan to take out a license plate. Aren't those people stuck on the Second Ring Road the same ones who gritted their teeth and paid the money? On the day when driving is restricted, aren’t those who can’t drive still the same people as us? For those vehicles that are truly needed, those with brand names, do people care about the tens of dollars of "congestion charges"?
You accept thirty or fifty without blinking an eye. However, for Lao Wang, who is engaged in online ride-hailing, and for mothers who need to pick up and drop off their children across districts every day, this is undoubtedly a real knife in the flesh.
To put it bluntly, if this fee is really collected, who will be screened out? The “middle class” who are good at calculating and can drive or take the subway? Or what about those "migrant workers" who cannot reimburse themselves but have to drive to the city?
Money is not everything
This is just like the first phase of China Express. In the past, there was a toll, and the traffic was as congested as a parking lot. Spending money was just asking for trouble. Now that they heard it might be free, everyone applauded. However, applause is applause. After free of charge, the traffic flow will increase by 50,000 vehicles. Then won’t there still be congestion where there should be congestion?
Charging is not a one-size-fits-all solution to all problems. The gas prices in many countries are much higher than here, but the vehicles that should be congested will not move even a little bit more than before, even if they take one step.
One of my friends made it particularly humorous. He said this, I would rather it charge this fee, at least the initiative is in my hands. Now when I encounter an emergency, I pay the fee and then I can enter. It is not like now, no matter what emergency you have, the odd and even number regulations are there, you own the vehicle, but you just can’t drive it.
If you taste this carefully, that feeling of having no power at all, that breathless feeling of being tightly suppressed by a rule that is absolutely certain that there is no possibility of change, is even more uncomfortable than taking out money.
What happened at the Haizhuwan Tunnel Hearing?
I've been watching the news these days. There's going to be a hearing on the Haizhuwan Tunnel. Whether the toll is 13 yuan or 15 yuan. There's a lot of fuss. You see, once it comes to actually spending money, everyone wakes up. No matter how the city looks like in the future, no matter how the road network is optimized, it is not as practical as the money in one's own pocket. This is not a sad thing, this is human nature.
In fact, what experts say is right, but it is the most hated thing.
He said that according to international experience, if a large city with a population of tens of millions can only rely on public transportation when commuting to and from work, if all of them choose to drive, no matter how many roads are built, it will ultimately be in vain.
Is this statement correct? That is absolutely correct! The city of London, the city of Tokyo, the city of New York, which city is not supported by dense subway lines?
But the problem is, you built the subway right downstairs from me!
You should ask Line 3, which runs in the morning and evening rush hours, not to squeeze people into photos!
sincerely hope
It's not a big truth, it's just this little sincere hope.
Don't always think about tolls. First of all, we need to repair the dead roads, open the parking lots of government agencies to residents at night, and design bus lanes more rationally. Don't let one lane be empty and cause waste, while the side is extremely congested.
If you can make taking the subway more comfortable, faster, and even less expensive than driving a car, rest assured that you won't have to charge even a penny of congestion charges, and people will naturally take the initiative to take the subway quickly.
At that time, driving into the city will truly become a "luxury choice" that requires additional costs (time and comfort), rather than a helpless move forced by a "fine".
Therefore, what this congestion charge charges is not money, but people’s hearts.
When people's hearts are scattered, the road will only become more blocked.
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