Comments on: How Should We Pay for Transportation in Missouri? http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/03/how-should-we-pay-for.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Thu, 24 May 2012 12:24:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/03/how-should-we-pay-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-5520 Jack Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:51:04 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=14830#comment-5520 As a daily user of mass transit for over 25 years, I believe it would be great if the region here had the same type of service. Unfortunately local power politics have doomed this optimistic wish. Obviously some benefit from this arrangement: http://www.studlife.com/forum/2010/02/26/wu-support-of-prop-a-shows-school’s-callousness-toward-the-poor/ The Extension was built in a manner that makes it a poor substitute to auto driving and even cycling. The Extension stations are well hidden and are too close together for efficient travel. Too bad Metro bet its future on this debacle. We have highways that represent the most popular routes but organizations like CMT are against using them. Instead of more subsidies and more taxes, we need to end the subsidies that cause such a poor allocation of limited resources. Higher gas taxes, electronic tolls on the FREEways inside of 270, toll bridges, and higher taxes for undervalued parking lots are needed first steps. Only after paying for what they use will consumers start to demand for a more efficient and integrated transportation system. As a daily user of mass transit for over 25 years, I believe it would be great if the region here had the same type of service. Unfortunately local power politics have doomed this optimistic wish. Obviously some benefit from this arrangement: http://www.studlife.com/forum/2010/02/26/wu-support-of-prop-a-shows-school’s-callousness-toward-the-poor/

The Extension was built in a manner that makes it a poor substitute to auto driving and even cycling. The Extension stations are well hidden and are too close together for efficient travel. Too bad Metro bet its future on this debacle. We have highways that represent the most popular routes but organizations like CMT are against using them.

Instead of more subsidies and more taxes, we need to end the subsidies that cause such a poor allocation of limited resources. Higher gas taxes, electronic tolls on the FREEways inside of 270, toll bridges, and higher taxes for undervalued parking lots are needed first steps. Only after paying for what they use will consumers start to demand for a more efficient and integrated transportation system.

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