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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They should be offered exceptions if walking or mass transit are unrealistic options.

No they shouldn’t. That’s how you let rich people skirt the law.

Tradespeople should just treat it like any other business expense. Eat it or raise your rates a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

eat it

They never do

a little bit

It's never a little, and we all bitch about inflation.

There's never a simple solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

They sometimes do, at least temporarily. But yes on the whole I agree. I can almost guarantee that it’s a net benefit, that the time saved by traffic reduction makes up for the additional cost in congestion charges