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Re: Bridges (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:23:09 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
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> > A really cool bridge (in a number of ways) is the Confederation Bridge that
> > links P.E.I. to the rest of Canada. I learned about it from a case study of
> > good engineering, and it's also a strong case for good economics and
> > feasability of privatization.
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> Ersatz privatization I would have to say... the government is giving an
> operating subsidy to the tune of 40M CDN a year it seemed like. That doesn't
> count as true privatization. With Auto tolls at something like 25 CDN a
> crossing, this looks like a bridge that doesn't make economic sense, at least
> not superficially.
Of course one should compare the toll cost to the ferry fare. If the
toll cost is significantly below the ferry fare, then it probably does
make economic sense. Of course one has to factor in the subsidy also,
best way to do that of course is add the per trip subsidy of the bridge
to the toll, and the per trip subsidy to the ferry fare and then
compare.
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Frank Filz
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