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by maccolgan 1459 days ago
You are making the assumption that deliberately causing an undersupply of road space so that people are forced to use public transit is a net virtue, while in reality it's just acting against the market.
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Not to say they've found a good strategy(!), but when the market fails to price in externalities like pollution from cars, acting against the market would be the right thing to do, wouldn't it?
Yes. The market is not a good in itself. Nor is it a perfect system.
Publicly funded road infrastructure is has nothing to do with the "market."
And you are making the assumption that acting in accordance with the market is automatically a net virtue.