Walk For Liberty Day 180 - Do Mass Transportation Systems Need To Be Subsidized?

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*** Video notes

November 3rd 2008, day 180; Fat squirrel; Took stray cat back; Cat allergy?; Fighting with Jake; Ridiculously high-priced gas stations; City governments subsidizing mass transportation systems; If it's economically viable, private companies would perform the task; Miami bus company shut down by government!; Government argues subsidized mass transit is necessary to ease congestion on roads, but that's them trying to solve a problem which they created!; Government screws up the economics of which transportation system is best; Private systems would most likely be less congested; Get the govt out of the roads and mass transit businesses, and let the free market decide which is best; 15.31 miles for liberty; http://donate.walkforliberty.com ; Jake civil disobedience

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[visiblepulse]

You stopped at McDonalds.

[WalkForLiberty]

Are you familiar with the area, or looked up the coordinates in Google Earth?

[John12787]

thanks for the heads up. I'll watch it =)

[intercityrailpal]

There is no longer a free market in transportation. We had private companys in transportation. They were railroad and streetcar companys. Then came the highway lobby......see..."a streetcar named denial" right on youtube Jitneys are a bad idea, they can be dangerous vehiches. They were first used to put the streetcar companys out of business. When the trains were gone, the Jitney people passed laws so this couldn't be used on them, by new Jitney company. I believe Greyhound was one of them.

[intercityrailpal]

@John12787 The highway and airline lobby run the transportation policy. (Private companys many are foreign car companys.)We now import a trillion dollars in oil a trillion dollars gone from this country forever every year. That doesn't include Walmart-China dollars. Check out a streetcar named denial on youtube it will explain part of it.

[John12787]

yeahh!! I remember the other buses youre talking about, they were the American Jitneys if I'm not mistaken. They were shut down about 10 years ago in Miami. I wish Miami had public transport worthwhile.

[jeffcarruthers]

$1.83 here in San Antonio. By the way, I ran for county commissioner as a Libertarian and at one of the debates, they asked what we would do about bringing light rail to S.A. My democratic opponent suggested we do some studies so we can get caught up to Dallas and Houston. I said this is no time due to the financial crisis our country is in. The study alone would probably run into millions. I also suggested to my opponent that if he likes Dallas and Houston so much, he ought to move there.

[Iain1962]

And don't forget that fuel is easily twice the price it is in the US.

So different systems to try and solve things.

I would say the British one has the least government intervention but works the least well.

I think Roads and rail need an element of government, don't forget they can also be used in time of war and for other purposes than just moving people around.

[Iain1962]

France has no tax on cars but you have to pay on the Motorways (around 8 usd/100km).

Holland has no paying roads but you have to pay a monthly tax based on the weight and type of engine, it can be a lot around 30 USD for a small car going up to 250 for an SUV type, every month.

In Britain there are no paying roads except inner London where you pay according to time of day about 10 dollars just to drive into town, but you pay a car tax which I think is around 250 usd/year.

[Iain1962]

Interesting question.

France has a heavily subsidised rail system but it's wonderful. Holland subsides also but not so much, the service is good, they also have good busses in Holland with dedicated roads just for the busses, works very well.

In the UK most of it was privatised and is expensive and doesn't work so well.

In France you can cross half the country in 3-4 hours for about 60 dollars. (about 700 kms Marseille to Paris)

[visiblepulse]

It's easier than that... for:

Lat: 41° 28' 58" N

Lon: 81° 44' 3" W

Just enter the GPS coordinates string in google maps as: 41 28 58N 81 44 3W

google maps will parse it. Then StreetView.

I live in North Alabama.