Comments on: Transport Economics again. http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/03/20/transport-economics-again/ RPGs. Trains, and bands that write 12 minute songs about Hobbits Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:02:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/03/20/transport-economics-again/#comment-273 Tim Hall Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:26:42 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/03/20/transport-economics-again/#comment-273 As the old saying goes, there's none so blind as those that won't see. I don't hear this argument in Britain so much, largely because we have vastly higher fuel taxes, so our roads aren't nearly as heavily subsidised, for cars at least. Trucks are a different story. As the old saying goes, there’s none so blind as those that won’t see.

I don’t hear this argument in Britain so much, largely because we have vastly higher fuel taxes, so our roads aren’t nearly as heavily subsidised, for cars at least. Trucks are a different story.

]]> By: Ginger Stampley http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/03/20/transport-economics-again/#comment-272 Ginger Stampley Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:40:53 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/03/20/transport-economics-again/#comment-272 One of the things that drives me nuts about anti-public-transport people is that they act as if roads and parking are the natural state of the universe. The default (no-cost) is roads and where you have to pay for right-of-way for trains/subways/etc., that is a special and differentiating cost. Um, no. Roads cost money too. And what about the cost of putting gas in the car and insuring it and making repairs? Those costs don't count either. grrr! One of the things that drives me nuts about anti-public-transport people is that they act as if roads and parking are the natural state of the universe. The default (no-cost) is roads and where you have to pay for right-of-way for trains/subways/etc., that is a special and differentiating cost.

Um, no. Roads cost money too.

And what about the cost of putting gas in the car and insuring it and making repairs? Those costs don’t count either.

grrr!

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