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In article <1993Jan22.122213.6563@its.bt.co.uk> tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk> roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson) writes:
>>Its a shame that the cost of catching the bus from point A (or rather the
>>nearest bus stop) to point B (or some point near it) costs as much as if
>>not more than driving from point A to point B.
>
>While the marginal cost of driving is certainly lower, the actual cost
>of driving is usually a good deal higher than catching the bus. I could
>buy a year's bus-pass with just my insurance premiums and still have
>enough left over for a newspaper to read on the bus every day; to say
>nothing about depreciation. The money it takes to run a car buys a lot
>of public transport.
>
Trouble is of course that once you've got a car it is the marginal cost
that matters. I'm in favour of public transport, but I don't intend to
give up my car.

One way of evening things up is to try to decrease the fixed cost of
having a car and increase the marginal cost. The most obvious way of
doing this is to reduce or abolish road tax and increase the tax (duty?)
on fuel to compensate. Can anyone think of anything else that can be
done on these lines?

Tim Morley (T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk)