What nutty analogy...toll roads actually increase congestion because most will still use the non-toll road...esp local truck traffic because those vehicles are charged more.
Bunch of nonsense to justify building the NAFTA Superhiway to move cheap Commie Chinese crap through Mexico
I’d like to know what the Texas Dept of Transportation has been doing with all the money they’ve collected over the years. They probably spent it on hair spray for Governor Good Hair, Rick Perry.
This article makes a very good point about the “cost” of congestion. Compare a highway to an electrical grid. Both of them are used by a large number of people, but the electrical grid has a variable pricing component that requires people to pay more during periods of heavy demand — the rationale being that this pricing arrangment will tend to reduce demand during those periods below what they would be in an “unconstrained” scenario.
How can building more roads increase congestion? Even if no one used the toll road the congestion on existing roads would be unchanged...
“Bunch of nonsense”
I totally agree. I hope this *professor* isn’t still teaching our children. What a bunch of mumbo jumbo!
in addition it causes pollution and wastes gas which adds to global warming. The backups at the toll booths are notorious. You can sit in bumper to bumper traffic leading to the toll booths daily around here. As well it contributes to more accidents because of the jocking for a open toll lane.