Driving in Austin – Page 5 – M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile

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Cars’ FRR is often zero

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Buses are horrible, because we subsidize their users! But what about your car?

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Capital Metro, Empty Buses, and Farebox Recovery Ratio

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The buses aren't empty, and local libertarians are still hypocrites

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The “Exit Test”: Suburb vs. City: Major Roads, from I-35

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Check the exit signs when you're driving on I-35.

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The “HEB test”

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The "HEB test" shows that Central Austin gets screwed on gas taxes

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Many More Major Roads In The Suburbs DO Get Gas Tax Money

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Same exercise as the last entry of this type. I couldn’t get the scale exactly right – this section of Round Rock / Pflugerville is…

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Most Major Roads In Cities Don’t Get Any Gas Tax

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Background for future commentary on tolls vs. gas tax -- basically most major roads in Austin are paid for out of property and sales taxes,…

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Observations from a car-less week

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M1EK spends a car-less week in northwest Austin and lives to tell the tale

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Anti-toll people are communists

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In Soviet Russia, free roads wait in line for you!

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Jeff Ward, Fred (Gilliam?) and Commuter Rail

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Transit bad. Grunt. Cars good. Hurrr. Texans never leave beloved cars. Argh. Houston and Dallas not in Texas.

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Libertarians and Public Highways

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Why I'm a better libertarian than Jeff Ward

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