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- From: tpalm@nada.kth.se (Thomas Palm)
- Subject: Re: Different Transit Plans for Different Population Clusters
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.145544.14531@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <l6e19vINNike@news.bbn.com> <1992Jul17.175627.29364@cco.caltech.edu> <JMC.92Jul24150518@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:55:44 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Jul24150518@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
-
- |> I spent Fall 1991 at Harvard living in Brookline. For a long time,
- |> Harvard bureaucrats wouldn't let me buy $4 per day parking stickers
- |> for a convenient lot. For most of this time I took a bus. Not
- |> bad as buses go. I had to walk to Cleveland Circle from where I
- |> lived and walk from Harvard Square to the Aiken Center. The
- |> alternative was commercial parking at $12 per day which wasn't
- |> always available or parking in Somerville which wasn't always
- |> available. When Harvard relented and sold me the parking stickers,
- |> I switched entirely to driving.
- |>
- |> --
- |> John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- |> *
- |> He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- |>
-
- Interesting, the free market values the parking at $12 while Harvard
- charges $4 per day. Seems to me like they are subsidising the parking
- by 67%. Why don't I hear any cries of outrage that this is wrong?
- Could it be that YOU profit from this subsidy?
-
- --
- "Goood planets are hard to find." Thomas Palm
- Department of Microwave Engineering
- Royal Institute of Technology
- S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
- tpalm@mvt.kth.se
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