California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic

Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by mikeash on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:06AM (#10614942)

Sure, let's just bring public transit subsidies up to the same level as car subsidies, then.

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Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by hueving on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:59AM (#10615277)

Fine with me as long as none if it comes out of fuel taxes, license revenue or anything else specific to vehicles.

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Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by mikeash on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:36AM (#10615478)

That stuff doesn't even suffice to pay for the roads, so there wouldn't be any surplus available to appropriate to other uses.

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Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by hueving on Monday November 23, 2015 @12:29PM (#10615794)

I didn't imply that it did. A shortcoming of tax revenue has never stopped people from allocating money from it though.

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