Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River Lock

Re:Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River ... by caf on Sunday November 27, 2016 @07:51PM (#13052654)

I suspect that if there are multiple river shipping companies but one monopoly lock operator, all of the economic surplus in the river transport industry will be captured by that monopoly operator.

Perhaps the solution is for the river shipping industry to form a co-op to build, own and operate the necessary infrastructure.

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Re:Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River ... by honkhonkpants on Sunday November 27, 2016 @07:52PM (#13052665)

Good idea! The more people we get to buy into the cooperative the better it will be! If we get everybody to participate we can just call it "government".

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Re:Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River ... by pc2g4d on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:33PM (#13059351)

Except that government is universal, whereas a river cooperative would only affect the parties directly involved. Thus you could scale things up without getting to government-scale.

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Re:Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River ... by mjevans on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:27AM (#13054149)

People would complain less if the costs involved were clearly spelled out, as well as who was paying the costs.

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