Comments on: No access all areas. Who hasn’t the use of a car? http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/no-access-all-areas-who-hasnt-the-use-of-a-car/ Economics, environment, mobility, safety Fri, 10 May 2013 07:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/no-access-all-areas-who-hasnt-the-use-of-a-car/#comment-2492 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:24:31 +0000 http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=817#comment-2492 Even if some of the 25% figure is people who don’t want a car, they still probably use public transport which is arguably more deserving of subsidy because it has lower social costs than car transport. So I don’t think what Sustrans were saying is as off the mark as you say.

Also, your argument that rail gets a disproportionate amount of public transport expenditure is itself somewhat misleading. Buses require less ‘public transport subsidy’ because the vast majority of their ‘infrastructure’ costs are paid for by general roads expenditure. When you factor this in the split between spending on rail and on buses is more even.

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