Comment 15671

By Ted Mitchell (registered) | Posted December 13, 2007 at 21:20:44

road damage is a non-linear relationship that is complicated by lots of other factors e.g. the compliant suspension of a city bus is going to be less damaging than say a dump truck of similar weight. recall that one full bus equals a two-minute continuous stream of single occ cars. if you were a pothole you'd prefer one bus instead of sixty cars.

Back to the issue, it's important to agree that non transit users subsidize transit. But the dollars involved are small compared to the degree that non-car users subsidize cars. I'd prefer to area rate roads because it would more than reverse the transit area rating skew. Then again the lower city subsidizes the mountain's water bills hugely and it gets embarassingly petty if you keep at this game...

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