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- From: sm@cel.co.uk (salim mehta)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
- Message-ID: <SM.93Jan22163103@suns2.cel.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:31:03 GMT
- References: <935820125829@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Sender: sm@crosfield.co.uk
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- Organization: Crosfield Electronics Ltd.
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- In-reply-to: roj@cs.bham.ac.uk's message of 20 Jan 93 13:38:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk> roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson) wrote:
- > 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.
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- Actually the *costs* are not the same, only the *prices* are.
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- If 50 people make journey A-B by bus they each pay UKLx. If they now repeat
- that journey by private transport they also incur the cost (to all of us)
- of the increased congestion (journey time) and pollution (journey quality).
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- Someone has to pay for these, it should be the motorist. Our government,
- however, prefer to share out these costs so that the bus passenger also pays.
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- This is the strange kind of socialism that sells to the Great British Public
- - sic. A similar thinking brought us the "fair" Poll Tax!!!!!
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