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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Regarding subsidies, there is a value in getting the furthest commuters off the roads. So, either we pay subsidies for transit or for road use.
As I said before, eliminating subsidies can never be perfect. We can waste a lot of money on trying to charge extra to non-residents for little long-term benefit.
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That is where I was trying to go in post #
108. In a perfect world we wouldn't subsidize the transportation costs of non-resident commuters, but trying to achieve that is kind of like playing "Whac-A-Mole" and the new mole that pops up may be worse than the one you whacked down, so lets find a mole that we can live with.