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- From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.135049.25666@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:50:49 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
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- References: <1992Jul21.032157.1519@s1.gov> <21985@venera.isi.edu> <1992Jul22.011736.16716@s1.gov>
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- In article <1992Jul22.011736.16716@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >In article <21985@venera.isi.edu> finn@atomic.isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
- >
- >: My understanding is that they were primarily paid for out of
- >: user fees. Those who use it pay for it directly, or at
- >: least, used to, until mass transit began removing money
- >: from the program. A substantial portion of federal gas tax
- >: money is now used to subsidize mass transit rather than
- >: being used to support the road system (see below SCRTD
- >: projected cost figures). I wrote my Senator to confirm
- >: this at the time.
- >
- > Your _understanding_?
- >
- > The freeways were paid for out of general funds. I hope I can
- >get Joseph Vranich's _Supertrains_ on hand for details.
- >
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- As I recall (sorry, no references), part of the justification for the
- interstate freeway system was military: to facilitate the rapid
- deployment of troops anywhere in the country. That would partially
- justify the expenditure of general funds to build it.
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