Thanks Russell. At least your response makes sense. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:00:07 Michael Scott wrote:
People don't want to pay tolls but then they whinge about having to pay taxes.
If there were tolls on the road you have the choice of using it or not and paying or not. Without tolls and with taxes funding roads you have no choice. It comes out of general revenue. I don't know that tolls on roads is the problem.
When there is a toll road the government guarantees profits to the toll operator by closing other roads. So the benefits from a toll road in terms of reducing traffic jams won't be as great as they would be from a tax paid road.
The tolls are paid by all companies that use road transport and then passed on to customers by increased prices. So it's not as if you can escape from paying by having a toll that is paid by almost everyone else.
Finally the toll revenue has to be a lot greater than the taxes because it pays for staff and equipment to collect the toll money, legal action when people don't pay the tolls, and a significant profit for the toll company.
The gridlock will occur because of increases in population and more cars on the road. The idea is to create a road system that alleviates gridlock. Does this alleviate gridlock or not?
The best way to alleviate gridlock is to have more public transport.
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