On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:33:07 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:


The same logic would say that not building the Motorway Box or
any other road scheme has "caused" congestion. Congestion has arisen
because too many people want to use too little roadspace,

My, you are a bright one.

which is because the cost of travel is suboptimal.

ROTFL! Oh really. How about, there is 'too little roadspace' (sic).

Building new roads merely lowers the cost of travel

As does adding capacity to any service, your point ?

and encourages people to travel more,

Gawd, we wouldn't want that now would we.

They might want cheap flights too.

and the result in a dense region like the south east is a congested equilibrium
- just as before.

I just lurve how the 'logical' trot out this fallacious article of eco
dogma.

The demand for road space is clearly not infinite.



greg



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