> how to discourage antisocial car use (rather than disouraging car ownership
> but encouraging those who decide to own a car to use them as much as
> possible which is what current systems seem to do):
> 1: charge all road taxes based on distance or fuel use not as a fixed cost.
> 2: force insurance companies to do the same.
> 3: charge extra for using busy roads at busy times (doing it on a per road
> basis is impractical but a zone based system like londons is reasonable)
> 4: provide good schemes for parking outside the city centre and catching
> public transport in, ideally make theese as faster(in other words
> preferablly trains of some form and if you must use busses make sure they
> have priority in the road network) and cheaper than parking in the centre.

Almost all (and more) you raised are implemented here except #2.  But it 
is starting to get irritating because after putting the road usage under 
control through pricing and higher pricing,

1. the authority is evading from the most important part of the work - 
responsible design and continuous evaluation and redesign of city, road 
  and related actvities. A lot of wastage can be cut and much efficency 
gained with a little bit of additional brain power here.
Cutting wastage is the most effective mean of power generation.  Yes - 
Free Energy.

2.  public transport price is rising beyond acceptable reasons.  It is 
being price like non-essential services.  And listed transportation 
monoplies are manuplicating their figures to coincide with fare revisin 
timing.


Ling SM
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