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Should public transport users pay their way? : Comments
By Alan Davies, published 1/10/2010Subsidising public transport makes it less useful to those who really need it.
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If everyone stopped driving for one week, every state in Oz would collapse, & the national would be close to them. That is how much our governments depend on the money they rip out of the motorists in fuel excise, tax & GST.
The motorists has paid dozens of times over for the miserable roads we have had in return.
You could drop the fuel tax rip off, & charge only for road usage, but that would have to be so high that to replace the motoring taxes that pay for everything but roads, that the rip off would be obvious & bring huge resistance.
Steven I was referring to the idea, not the person. Hope I didn't shock you too much.
The answer is so simple. Old fashioned city centers are no longer viable. Get most of the bureaucrats out of the city, there is no reason for most of them to be there. Put a moratorium on high rise commercial construction within 10 Km of the city, & convert any that are no longer viable to apartments. Over 10 years the congestion would be cured.
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