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Article #115Re: City Traffic
From: Bob Hendley
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:19
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:19
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In article <1993Jan22.143422.23243@gssec.bt.co.uk> amatthew@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Matthews) writes: >Try taking into account the cost to an individual (over a year) of: > [some deleted] > >and also the less quantifiable costs which everyone contributes to: > >cost of road repairs caused by every extra car on the road >cost of new roads / road widening needed due to the extra cars on the road >cost of pollution > >On that basis, public transport is cheaper not only for individuals but for >society as a whole. > This would appear to assume that buses (in particular) cause less damage to roads, require less road space and cause less pollution than cars. The first is clearly untrue. The other two are, I understand, fairly evenly balanced. Bob -- R.J.Hendley@cs.bham.ac.uk School of Computer Science Phone: +44 21 414 4761 University of Birmingham Home: +44 21 444 8656 PO Box 363, Birmingham, UK Fax: +44 21 414 4281
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!bhamcs!rjh From: rjh@cs.bham.ac.uk (Bob Hendley) Newsgroups: uk.transport Subject: Re: City Traffic Message-ID: <C1F6sE.Ky6@cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 25 Jan 93 17:19:25 GMT References: <935820125829@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.143422.23243@gssec.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk Distribution: uk Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: fattie