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Researchers like Giulio Mattioli have shown pretty well what should be clear from watching politics: getting people out of their cars requires sticks as well as carrots.

>Improvement to public transport is the only win-win policy measure in the diagram. As a matter of fact, all policies that reduce the need for an automobile to access jobs and services by improving the effectiveness of other modes are generally seen as contributing to alleviating social exclusion, insofar as they improve the situation of households without a car (Shaw and Farrington, 2003, p.109). They should have a positive impact on environmental sustainability as well, insofar as they encourage a modal shift from the private car to less polluting means of transport. However, transport researchers generally agree that “pull” measures that encourage voluntary reductions of car use – or “carrots” – are unlikely to effectively bring about change at an adequate scale and speed (Huby and Burkitt, 2000, p.390); therefore it is generally pointed out that there is a need for complementary “push” measures, which aim to reduce car use in a more direct and coercive manner (“sticks”).

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giulio-Mattioli-2/publi...

Or see this thread: See https://twitter.com/giulio_mattioli/status/16250810050893660...

Making driving worse is good, actually.