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This is good. A suggestion to help encourage the shift to shared mobility we all would like to see: The overwhelming majority of residents in this country live in places smaller than Charlotte (14th largest by population). To them, and to the residents of Charlotte, it is a place where they work, play, form identities, live out relationships, cultivate memories. If we want to encourage a cultural and values shift — which, to be clear, is what is required to change mode decisions — consider not reducing both people and place to commodities. Charlotte is not a “market,” it is a city, a vibrant collective of people. People necessarily spend money, and will happily do so, but whom I suspect don’t like being told they are viewed as nothing more than dollar signs.