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- From: rjh@cs.bham.ac.uk (Bob Hendley)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:19:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.143422.23243@gssec.bt.co.uk> amatthew@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Matthews) writes:
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- >Try taking into account the cost to an individual (over a year) of:
- >
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- [some deleted]
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- >
- >and also the less quantifiable costs which everyone contributes to:
- >
- >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
- >
- >On that basis, public transport is cheaper not only for individuals but for
- >society as a whole.
- >
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- This would appear to assume that buses (in particular) cause less
- damage to roads, require less road space and cause less pollution than
- cars.
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- The first is clearly untrue. The other two are, I understand, fairly
- evenly balanced.
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- Bob
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