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Originally Posted by BrownTown
1. I don't know what metric you're using, but Beijing is very dense. You're probably looking at some metric that includes high swaths of farmland and forests as opposed to just the central city. You cant just compare density that way since it's all based on how you draw the areas.
2. Putting tolls on roads doesn't just make the demand disappear. If people cant get to their jobs then those jobs will just move out away from the city center.
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I’ll concede the the point on the density. I don’t see which undesirable districts you would demolish as even the low density hutongs have some of the highest real estate cost in the world.
They already ban your car for 1 out of 5 work days, sometimes due to pollution they will ban your car every other day, and they restrict your ability to buy a car by requiring you to wait several years. People can still get to their jobs because of heavily subsidized transit.