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- From: amatthew@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Matthews)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.143422.23243@gssec.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:34:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk>, roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson) writes:
- |> Its a shame that the cost of catching the bus from point A (or rather the nearest
- |> bus stop) to point B (or some point near it) costs as much as if not more than
- |> driving from point A to point B.
-
- Possibly if you live in a rural area this is the case. But for the vast
- majority of commuters travelling through built-up areas this is only
- superficially true.
-
- Try taking into account the cost to an individual (over a year) of:
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- buying the car in the first place
- car tax
- car insurance
- general maintenance
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- and also the less quantifiable costs which everyone contributes to:
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- cost of road repairs caused by every extra car on the road
- cost of new roads / road widening needed due to the extra cars on the road
- cost of pollution
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- On that basis, public transport is cheaper not only for individuals but for
- society as a whole.
-
- (
- Apologies if you subscribe to the Mrs Thatcher "there is no such thing
- as society, only individuals" view :-)
- )
-
- Alan
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