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By KevinLove (registered) | Posted April 05, 2017 at 08:42:02

It's also important to note that the main alternative transportation vision that LRT opponents bring up is based on free-market innovation completely devoid of any government involvement.

Perhaps Ian is seeing a "main alternative transportation vision" of LRT opponents that I am not. What I am seeing is nothing but the status quo, perhaps tweaked with self-driving cars. This status quo is, of course, based upon massive government involvement and subsidy. This includes the supporting engineering infrastructure of roads, signals, etc, of which we have a huge repair deficit. It also includes provision of police, fire and ambulance services to police car drivers and pick up the pieces when they misbehave. It also includes $500 million in annual health care costs to treat the 93 people killed and over 400 people seriously injured by the fine particle lethal cancer poison attacks launched by motor vehicle drivers upon the people of Hamilton.

Self-driving cars may reduce the annual number of 16 people crushed and killed by motor vehicle operators in Hamilton every year. But make no difference or (yikes!) even increase the far larger number of 93 people viciously poisoned and killed by motor vehicle operators every year.

Comment edited by KevinLove on 2017-04-05 08:48:37

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