Analysis critiques rail passenger subsidies and their impact on urban congestion, suggesting decentralization instead.
Professor Shipman argues that rail passenger subsidies are undesirable; people enjoy driving to work, and the true answer to congestion may be the break-up of cities by drastic decentralisation. Except for development purposes in corridor transport, rail subsidies may only delay desirable long-run solutions.
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W.D. Shipman (1971) studied this question.
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