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OTOH, an excessive feeling of ownership over neighborhood roads leads to the Tragedy of the Anticommons: everyone keeps the roads in their neighborhood off limi
by hx87 10y ago
OTOH, an excessive feeling of ownership over neighborhood roads leads to the Tragedy of the Anticommons: everyone keeps the roads in their neighborhood off limits to outsiders, so everyone gets stuck in traffic longer, with all the entailing health and environmental costs, and thus a formerly public resource (roads) becomes underutilized.
- johnmaguire2013 10y agoOTOH, neighborhood roads aren't designed for the same amount of traffic as main roads -- maintenance happens less often, the roads are made of cheaper materials, there are no street lights, etc. I don't believe that they are "underutilized" by being used solely as neighborhood roads -- that is, in fact, all they were designed for.
- hx87 10y agoYou're right that they are designed for lower loads. But perhaps they shouldn't be, and retrofitting them might be a good use of public money.
- johnmaguire2013 10y agoAt that point, why not expand "public" roads?
- rahimnathwani 10y agoExpand them how? Make them wider, and get rid of the sidewalk? Make them multi-level?