Comments on: How Would Mr. Spock Design U.S. Transportation Policy? http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/01/26/how-would-mr-spock-design-u-s-transportation-policy/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian Turner http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/01/26/how-would-mr-spock-design-u-s-transportation-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-191911 Ian Turner Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:31:54 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=135671#comment-191911 BikingViking, subsidies don't make things cheaper, they just alter who pays. Cheers, --Ian BikingViking, subsidies don’t make things cheaper, they just alter who pays.

Cheers,

–Ian

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]]> By: BikingViking http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/01/26/how-would-mr-spock-design-u-s-transportation-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-191771 BikingViking Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:17:11 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=135671#comment-191771 __________________ _-_ \________________|)____.----'---`---.______ || \----_____________.----/ || / ,' `---' ___||____,--' --._ /___ ___||(- `---._____-' Dilithium is an unsustainable resource Seriously though, logic (and in particular modernist worldview) did have something to do with the decision to build the car based infrastructure back in the 40's... Oil was a national resource in that era, and peak oil for the country let alone the planet was far from anyones mind. Cars did (and do) allow people the freedom to travel from place to place without reliance on a train schedule and fairly cheaply (especially if subsidized). It's just that since the 70's the reasons justifying that logic have changed, and no one has been able to take on the powers that got rich off of the road based infrastructure. __________________ _-_
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Dilithium is an unsustainable resource

Seriously though, logic (and in particular modernist worldview) did have something
to do with the decision to build the car based infrastructure back in the 40′s…
Oil was a national resource in that era, and peak oil for the country let alone the planet
was far from anyones mind. Cars did (and do) allow people the freedom to travel from
place to place without reliance on a train schedule and fairly cheaply (especially if
subsidized). It’s just that since the 70′s the reasons justifying that logic have changed,
and no one has been able to take on the powers that got rich off of the road based
infrastructure.

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