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Too much federal money goes to subsidizing the automobile/roads as a means of transportation. Drivers should bare more of the cost of driving, then a real marke
by maloney 11y ago
Too much federal money goes to subsidizing the automobile/roads as a means of transportation. Drivers should bare more of the cost of driving, then a real market could emerge in mass transit. This would also eliminate an immense amount of energy usage
- serge2k 11y agouh huh, and we are just gonna ignore the continuing need to actually move stuff around?
- scarmig 11y agoI take their meaning to be this: right now, the government subsidizes a form of transportation because there's no effective way for the costs of allowing it to be internalized. (Having a toll plaza on every intersection is obviously impossible.) With driving cars, it will become much cheaper to engage in trade centered around automobile transit. Sensors, tracking, mutuality agreements between road owners and car makers. It's plausible that all existing transit subsidies could accumulate to the road owners through market pricing, not government handouts that we have difficulty establishing the true value of.
- maloney 11y agoSpending vast amounts of money on interstates is a waste. Railroads are a much better solution than a fleet of 18 wheelers. If you had to pay the actual cost of driving accross the country, high speed rail becomes a viable option.
- specialist 11y agoAuto multimodal would be cool.
- chronic50 11y agoMost drivers spend time driving in rural areas where mass transit is useless.