Your professor is teaching a class on urban planning. Write a post responding to the professor's question. Express and support your opinion and contribute to the discussion in your own words. An effective response has at least 100 words.
Dr. Halvorsen
Several cities now charge drivers a fee to enter the city centre during busy hours. Supporters call it the fairest available way to cut congestion and to pay for better public transport. Critics reply that it penalises people who have no realistic alternative to driving, and that it pushes traffic onto surrounding streets rather than removing it. Should cities charge drivers to enter the centre? Why or why not?
Marisol
I support the charge. Road space in a city centre is scarce, and we already accept that scarce things are rationed by price. What makes the policy defensible is what happens to the money: in the cities that have tried it, the revenue has gone into buses and cycle lanes, which is precisely what gives people the alternative they are said to lack.
Ivan
I am not convinced. A flat fee costs a wealthy driver almost nothing and a low-paid one a great deal, so the people discouraged from driving are the people with the least money, not the people with the least need. And a nurse finishing a shift at two in the morning cannot take a bus that is not running.