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The effects of a road congestion tax
"Dan Holdsworth" wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:28:28 -0000, Oliver Keating was popularly supposed to have said: LOL Rural bus services are under threat because no one uses them, and those that do are probably recieving about £10 subsidy per journey. A congestion charge would help more marginal public transport systems pay for themselves, and the business about train overcrowding can be solved by allowing companies to charge higher fares on the basis that it must be used to improve the service - which has a 2 fold benefit of an immediate reduction in demand (due to higher prices) and long term improvement in capacity. Another golden oldie from Captain Clueless himself! So, you price the car drivers off the road. Then the ex-car drivers get stung a second time because the busses and trains can't cope, and the operators cannot raise the millions needed to build more tracks. Guess who cops the blame? You probably didn't guess correctly, but the answer is: the politicians who implemented the hare-brained plan in the first place. Think before posting, please; you might shed the reputation as a bumbling nitwit if you did. You are an idiot and however you manged to get a PhD really makes me wonder. Was it a PhD in playschool? Did you figure out which holes to put the different shapes in? -- Dan Holdsworth PhD By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion |
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