Re: when 70% of drivers are banned from the road

"Free Lunch" <lunch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:46:58 +0900, in misc.trans****t.urban-transit
> Miles Bader <miles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in <87tzjq46zh.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Jym Dyer <jym@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >> =v= Of course, massive oil subsidy is the only reason that
> >> wasteful trucking has been competitive (false-economical) with
> >> rail in the first place, but rising oil costs are starting to
> >> make some things undeniable.
> >
> >There's also the massive subsidies to maintain the highway system in
the
> >first place -- you constantly see complaints that trucking is
> >responsible for 90% of road wear, but pays very little of thath cost.
>
> Trucks pay for a share of the road through taxes or tolls, but they do
> have to share with others. Rail has decided that they don't want to
> share, except through contract, so they have to pay for their own
> dedicated routes. Tough for them. We would be much better off if rail
> had competitive carriers on all trackage and the tracks were run by a
> utility.

It would raise costs.