ManusJustus said:
Why do you disagree with it? |
A) From the limited data... private roads work better and are safer... even when adjusting for just about everything... but this is limited data.
B) Even assuming the data is better it would take quite the transition period to transition over all of the public roads to private roads.
C) A lot of the advantages of private roads COULD be adopted by public roads... and like I showed in that paper... some are being considered.
In otherwords, there is no reason to uproad the entire road system for possible marginal benefit. In situations where the government can't improve they can always just turn over certain roads... or even parts of roads to private companies.
Which is another thing that they do.
Pennsylvania is considering allowing private companies to build new "congestion" toll lanes, that you can pay extra to ride on.
Really though, Private roads are a lot more common then you'd think in the US.
