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Roads and road standards are a tragedy of the commons. People keep buying bigger cars and demanding more, wider lanes and parking spaces because they don't take
by twelvechairs 2y ago
Roads and road standards are a tragedy of the commons. People keep buying bigger cars and demanding more, wider lanes and parking spaces because they don't take any of the burden individually - it's the taxpayers as a whole that foot the bill.
Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users.
- sooheon 2y agoThe solution to tragedies of the commons is to internalize externalities. Tax should scale with carbon use, congestion contribution, and microplastic emission.
- robertlagrant 2y ago> Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users. I think it's "limited government". I'm pretty sure they would prefer roads get more spending.