[423] in libertarians
Re: Road Privitization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Thu Nov 17 08:56:22 1994
From: theobald@bluebeard.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 08:49:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Paul D. Eccles"'s message [Re: Road Privitization] as of Nov 14, 12:10
To: "Paul D. Eccles" <pde@sd.inri.com>, libertarians@MIT.EDU
| It's hard for me to imagine if all the roads in the US were privitized, that
| we would be better off. What more incentive would a private comapany have
| in maintaining the road? Could each company make their own rules to drive
| on their roads?
I heard someone (maybe a Lib candidate many years back) mention an idea whereby
an oil company could buy a highway, and rather than setting up toll booths (which
would annoy customers and cost money to run anyway), they would only allow their
own gas stations on the road. If they charged too much, people would simply take
another road (like how you can choose to take route 2 or 9 instead of the Pike).
Perhaps restrictive covenants could be used to keep one company from getting all
the roads between two points.
- Kevin
