Miles o’ Road
Posted by Caleb O. Brown on October 11th, 2007 in economics, politics, transportation |
A commission in Massachusetts is looking at charging drivers … by the mile:
Under the commission’s plan, a 5-cents-per-mile fee on major roads would replace, or minimize, gas taxes and fundamentally change a central aspect of everyday life.
“The idea that this is completely free is a fiction. It isn’t,” said James Aloisi Jr., a lawyer who served on the commission and a transportation official under former governor Michael Dukakis. “Someone’s got to pay for it. We think the user should pay for it.”
Drivers paying for the space they eat up on the road, minimizing delays to every other driver? Perish the thought.
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There was an interesting article recently about NC experimenting with this, due to high growth in parts of the state and the fact that hybrid cars are somewhat breaking the correlation between gas taxes and miles driven.