[407] in libertarians
Re: [pde@sd.inri.com: Re: Road Privitization]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Corcoran)
Mon Nov 14 16:35:04 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 16:29:11 EST
From: tjic@ICD.teradyne.com (Travis Corcoran)
To: pde@sd.inri.com
Cc: damartin@ampere.mit.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199411142113.AA20750@zymurgy> (pde@sd.inri.com)
> From: "Paul D. Eccles" <pde@sd.inri.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 13:13:17 PST
>
> You don't always have a choice of a different road. There's only one that
> leads to the street where I live. Waht if the company that owns your street
> does a bad job? Move?
My guess is that at least in any new roads being created, and probably
in any existing roads which were privatized, residential streets would
be bought and managed by groups of residents, in much the same way
that the common areas of a condo are managed by the condo-owners.
End results:
(1) the managers have self interest to make the road work well.
(2) the road won't always ( in the real world ) be managed exactly the
way everyone living on it would hope for.
(3) but it would still be managed as much more to the liking of the
average resident than a comparable road under the existing system.
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