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> Your solution is effectively corporate welfare. The current state of affairs is corporate welfare too. With an added side helping of externalities imposed on
by jacques_chester 7y ago
> Your solution is effectively corporate welfare.
The current state of affairs is corporate welfare too. With an added side helping of externalities imposed on other traffic.
I think you're touching on the fact that all road surfaces in NYC are a massive net wealth transfer to those who drive on them or (especially) park on them.
I agree. Either charge the full economic rate for use of the road, or turn it over to public transport, or some mix of these.
- MiroF 7y agoWe should be phasing out roads for non-delivery traffic in urban areas anyways.
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- icebraining 7y agoSo no buses in urban areas?
- catalogia 7y agoBuses are just trucks that specialize in delivering people.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoIt's not really corporate welfare, because delivery companies are in competition and the cost savings get passed on to the consumer. It's a subsidy.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoPeople keep repeating "savings get passed to the consumer" truism, but what is your evidence? DHL posts healthy profits, so I allege we are just padding their bottom line.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoIf that were false, DHL would raise prices and get even more profits.