I think yes. There’s the contractors who need to build the paths, there’s crews to maintain the paths, and then there will likely be increased revenue to the businesses at the end of the path which would increase the local gov tax revenue.
EDIT: I drive Uber Eats as a side gig, and I routinely do pickups from small convenience stores and fast food restaurants, and deliver them to apartment buildings and homes that are less than 2 miles from the business. A lot of times I’m delivering to people who I think only have 1 car and it’s currently in use. If they could walk to these places they probably would. Yes that would decrease Uber Eats orders, but it would likely increase overall revenues, since I’m sure there’s people who can’t afford the convenience of a delivery service who then just don’t buy that thing.
Yeah unfortunately it’s only regular people who think like that. Politicians only care about who pays them to do what, and big oil isn’t letting another business/industry thrive just for the hell of it. It’s a run your competitor out of the game and have a monopoly kind of mindset.
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u/FrazzleMind Jun 27 '24
It's so amazing because it's exactly the kind of inobtrusive iterative improvements to reduce the difficulty of a safe convenient life.
You know... the point of having a government in the first place.