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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:33:03 GMT, ziggy29@netgate.net (Tim Irvin)
wrote:

>On 13 Apr 1997 05:12:53 GMT, Jim Titus
><jtitus.REMOVE.THIS.OBVIOUS.SPAMBLOCK@erols.com> wrote:
>
>>What would you guess the toll per mile would be if all 
>>highways were privatized?
>
>It would be fairly high.
>
>The question, though, is this:  If the gas taxes were repealed,
>except for maybe a little per mile for air pollution measures,
>and all other public money spent on highways were returned to
>the taxpayers, and divided by the number of miles driven per
>year, would that "money per mile" figure be lower or higher 
>than the toll per mile under a privatized system?
>
>I don't pretend to have the answer, but we need to at least
>consider *all* relevant factors before just saying that 
>the tolls would be too high.
>
>My guess is that the toll per mile would more fairly weight
>the costs so that the heavy drivers, who drive 20,000 miles
>per year, would pay close to 4 times what someone driving
>only 5,000 miles per year would pay.
>
>Currently, per mile, non-drivers and light drivers are
>clearly subsidizing those people with 100-mile round trip
>daily commutes.

What about the huge trucking fleets that transport food and such.
I've heard that the trucks put a grossly unproportionate amount of
wear on the highway system.  We should return to rail-ways.
 
Sean