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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Mon Nov 14 16:38:15 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:36:59 -0500
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>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?
What can you do if the city does a bad job, start a
revolution? :-)
But seriously, there is only one street next to my house. But
where I live in Somerville, there are usally 5 different ways to get
from a main road to the middle of a residential area. I know I often
avoid one route to my house because of the potholes. Thus, the company
still has an incentive to keep the roads nice. Also, in reality, many
residential streets would probably be owned by the houses along them
which would pay for their maintenance. Today in the US, many people
are moving to residential developments where the security, roads,
etc. are maintained by a private company for the residential
development rather than the government.
-David
