Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
by joe_the_user on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:09PM
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Look all you want, but road maintenance costs are primarily a subsidy for the trucking industry, and by extension the businesses that rely on them.
I can't see a plausible argument that cities consume a disproportionate amount of the country's truck traffic. It seems like Suburban malls and supermarkets require pretty much exactly proportionate truck traffic to their city counter-parts. Moreover, manufacture is not particular concentrated in cities so that too gets equal coverage in suburbs. And all of this stuff requires proportionately more miles driven in the suburbs due to the lower density.
I don't know if cities consume more Kambucha than suburbs but if they do, I assume that suburbs consume some other equivalently.
I can't see a plausible argument that cities consume a disproportionate amount of the country's truck traffic. It seems like Suburban malls and supermarkets require pretty much exactly proportionate truck traffic to their city counter-parts. Moreover, manufacture is not particular concentrated in cities so that too gets equal coverage in suburbs. And all of this stuff requires proportionately more miles driven in the suburbs due to the lower density.
I don't know if cities consume more Kambucha than suburbs but if they do, I assume that suburbs consume some other equivalently.