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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Mon Oct 1, 2012, 05:15 PM Oct 2012

We all think we're in traffic, not that we are traffic. [View all]

The Price Of Free

Congestion is a negative externality. I'm not particularly concerned with the fact that if I put my car on the road I'm going to make life that much worse for other drivers on the road. We all think we're in traffic, not that we are traffic. Sometimes you can actually make everybody worse off if something is too cheap.
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