Subj : Re: Things I miss
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 17:34:40

  Re: Re: Things I miss
  By: Nightfox to Dream Master on Fri Feb 25 2022 09:17 am

 >   Re: Re: Things I miss
 >   By: Dream Master to Dumas Walker on Fri Feb 25 2022 12:09 am
 > 
 >  >> How long is that $200 pass good for?
 > 
 >  DM> Here, in Colorado, one month.
 > 
 > If you can do without a car, then depending on your situation, $200 per mont
 > for a public transit pass may be less expensive than car insurance, gas,
 > perhaps a car loan if you have a loan, etc..  And without a car, you don't h
 > to worry about the cost of maintenance and repairs.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

I feel like some sort of Armchair Macho saying this, but if you live in a
middle sized town you don't need any transport but a good pair of boots. As
long as you are young and have time to spare :-)

They used to run the numbers every now and then in journals and documentaries
around here, and collective transport (buses, metros and such) are more cost
effective than your regular car, but more modest means of private transport
(such as motorbikes or budget cars) were even cheaper.

My main gripe with collective transport is that the administration is trying to
push it very hard, but they don't have an actual plan. The proper way of having
people use collective transport would be to make collective transport so damn
good that you would not need private transport at all - this is, you would not
bother getting a car because you know you can use a bus instead and get all the
transport you need for little buck. However, the administrations here are doing
it the other way around: they attempt to make it harder for you to use your own
transportation, in the hope that you will give up and send your car to the
scrap yard, but they don't offer you an alternative. Which means, they may
force Francisco to give his car up because he can no longer pay the asociated
taxes, but then Francisco is given no means for travelling between his village
and the cattle market office for work. What the government does is to give you
a bus that passes-by every 4 days at the 20:00 and tells you to be a good
citizen and use that instead of your car.

I am undescribably bummed by this because there is talk here about increasing
the costs of private intercity transport by billing tolls each time you go in
or out of a small to middle-sized town. If you don't want to pay the toll you
are supposed to get an inoperative collective transport instead, which
obviously won¨'t cut it. Lots of small parcel delivery tasks would be
overburdened: if you have a small company delivering packages to nearby
villages from a city, they will bleed you dry each time your van goes in and
out. As you may guess, the end result is that Grannie Antonieta, the end
consumer, is going to be the one paying the price in the end, because
distribution companies are just going to add the tax costs to the prices of
final products.

And this is yet another reason why Spanish Administration is not worth the
napalm needed to make it burn in Hell.


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