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Bicyclists are a tragedy of the commons. This is yet another reason why I'm in favor of complete elimination of public roads in favor of private/toll roads. T
by notch656a 5y ago
Bicyclists are a tragedy of the commons. This is yet another reason why I'm in favor of complete elimination of public roads in favor of private/toll roads. There is no 'right' to a bicyclists being provided a free public road in the way there is say a right to free speech.
- meetups323 5y agoAccess to good roads is among the very few things that is so vastly important to the general prosperity of the population that leaving them to private companies would do more harm than good. As the dude I overhead in some backcountry bar in the middle of nowhere put it: the government should pay for two things - clean water, smooth roads, and that's it.
- notch656a 5y agoI'd argue precisely because they are so important, is why I'm so sure the government should have its hand out of it.
- mikecoles 5y agoMust not have been back into the country very far as water from a well doesn't need to be supplied by the government and rough roads keeps the outsiders outside.
- thesuitonym 5y agoI'd argue cars are the tragedy of the commons. Roads existed before cars, and they were for people and, yes, bicycles. Cars came and took them over, made them extremely unpleasant and unsafe places to be, require much more infrastructure and are much less efficient for short trips.