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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by londons_explore on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:24AM (#15871382)
Why aren't they a market-priced good?

It's a market with a fixed supply, but other markets like that work just fine. For example, the USA has a fixed amount of land, and that is sold at a market, and has settled on mostly reasonable rates.

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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by antisthenes on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:51AM (#15871625)
Market rates for land in desirable place are anything but reasonable. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion you did, but in actual desirable places, land is unaffordable to all but the very wealthy.
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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by humanrebar on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:53PM (#15875479)
Private land sales happen between voluntary buyers and sellers. From that perspective, prices are fair.
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