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So the roads are privately-owned and the owners can charge road users anything they want. Such a system is only in the interest of the road owners, since they

• landemva 4y ago
  Nobody but Google monetizing street view is losing, or even grumbling about any problems. Everyone in town has reciprocal easement to/from all the other landowners to use the strip of private property that looks like a road. I am curious how anyone other than maybe Google street view is losing. Who do you think is losing? Who is there to charge, as the people using the roads live there and have the easement for use. A huge positive is that I don't need a stupid license plate or even a license to travel around in a car or on my dirt bike. It's private property and the government rules only apply on government roads.
  • lottin 4y ago
    Everybody loses because there aren't multiple road networks competing to provide access to the same places. There is just one network, right? This means the it's a monopolistic market, and in a monopolistic market everybody loses except the monopolist. In a small town privately-owned roads can work because there aren't many outsiders using the roads, therefore the road owners are themselves the main road users, and so they may have the right incentives to do adequate road maintenance, and they don't charge anything because they have a reciprocal agreement, but a large road network that is privately owned would lead to a "monopoly equilibrium" where roads would be poorly maintained and road users would be charged high fees.