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Tolls should go away as well. Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not (people on the road the personal reasons ar
by pixie_ 13y ago
Tolls should go away as well. Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not (people on the road the personal reasons are a fraction of those on the road for business ones.) That plus toll roads hurt local economies everywhere by suppressing the ability for people to start businesses off exits, and giving monopoly to businesses running inside rest stops. I'm sure everyone has driven on roads that become toll roads only to quickly notice the death of all residence and businesses along these roads.
- pbhjpbhj 13y ago>Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not // It's more complex than that. If you take journeys that aren't necessary or use transportation in otherwise inefficient manners - ship flowers from halfway around the world in an aeroplane for example - then that's to everyone's detriment as it wastes non-renewable resources. Everyone benefits from transportation to some extent but that certainly doesn't mean that encouraging more of it increases the benefit.
- davidf18 13y agoIn places like Manhattan as described above one wants to incentivize people to take the very efficient mass transit over using vehicles because of the traffic as well as the air pollution. The tolls help to do this.
- forgotAgain 13y agoIn theory perhaps, but in practice, no. The tolls are used to protect politicians from the backlash of public transit fare hikes.