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by gruez
350 days ago
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>The issue is that they consistently lose money and people who will never make use of them have to subsidize it. It's doubtful that congestion pricing is going to lose money given that the roads already exist. >A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities. A mandatory payment enforced by the government is a "tax", not "price control". |
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