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Transportation - USA - No More Government Roads
* What if I could propose a solution that would clean up our air, reduce our dependency on foreign oil, save energy, reduce urban sprawl, lower taxes, and alleviate traffic congestion, all in one fell swoop?...
* No, this isn't a fantasy. It's actually quite simple: get the government out of the business of building roads and highways...
Burlingame,CA,USA -Lew Rockwell, by by David M. Woods -25 Apr 2006: -- About a hundred years ago, someone in government decided that private cars and cargo trucks shall be the dominant modes of transportation. And so it came to be. Here are some figures from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation: As of 2003 (latest year compiled statistics are available), there were nearly 4 million miles of paved roads and streets in the U.S. If you add up multi-lane roads, you get about 8.3 million lane-miles. In FY 2004, federal, state, and local governments spent about $147 Billion building and maintaining all that concrete. (About $144 Billion of that was state and local dollars.) The DOT estimates that we logged about 2.9 Trillion vehicle-miles in 2003... So with a little help from our good friends in government: America has made its choice, and it chose the road. But was it a wise and proper choice?...
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