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Comments on: Taxing congestion: How I might justify it http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/07/taxing-congestion-how-i-might-justify-it/ The Visible Hand in Economics Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/07/taxing-congestion-how-i-might-justify-it/#comment-8340 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:49:56 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=2559#comment-8340 “Congestion is caused because we queue for the roads rather than pay for them.”

Congestion by definition is the “queuing for roads”. Think of it another way though – queuing for roads is effectively paying for the use of the road …

]]> By: FreneticMonkey http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/07/taxing-congestion-how-i-might-justify-it/#comment-8339 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:45:31 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=2559#comment-8339 Congestion is caused because we queue for the roads rather than pay for them.

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/07/taxing-congestion-how-i-might-justify-it/#comment-8073 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:46:03 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=2559#comment-8073 Hi Bill,

Very interesting. A flat rate sounds like as good as any rule of thumb I could think of – it would be interesting to see any costing done by London authorities on the issue.

]]> By: bill bennett http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/01/07/taxing-congestion-how-i-might-justify-it/#comment-8072 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:43:39 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=2559#comment-8072 It’s not directly answering the question, but when the M25 (London ring motorway) was under construction there was a lot of debate about how the high number of exit and entry roads would lead to congestion.

A motorway functions better with few on and off ramps. With lots of exits people use the motorway for local rather than long distance journies and get in the way of through traffic. Logically the most efficient motorway would simply run from A to B with no additional entry points.

By the same token a toll road should charge proportionately more for shorter journies than longer ones — perhaps a flat rate whatever the distance travelled?

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