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The best real-world argument for private roads?

Could it be the Internet? There is no central planning authority dictating traffic routing, yet users get to where they want; information is readily available, accessible; goods are proficient and easily accessed; commerce is booming and, arguably, the future is online ordering; and much more.

Published Sun, Sep 20 2009 3:34 PM by thedo
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# re: The best real-world argument for private roads?@ Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:02 PM

I read the title of this thread and clicked the link with glee. I felt badly let down. I'm actually looking for real life examples of private roads, here are two:

en.wikipedia.org/.../Long_Island_Motor_Parkway

en.wikipedia.org/.../91_Express_Lanes

by MatthewWilliam

# re: The best real-world argument for private roads?@ Monday, September 21, 2009 9:07 AM

I guess my post was directed more toward a complex network of private roads because many, at least in my discussions with them, believe a network of roads as we have today would be too complex and expensive for private owners to manage. Yet the Internet gets by just fine.

by thedo

# re: The best real-world argument for private roads?@ Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:45 AM

Users can't go where they want. I cannot route this message around the NSA's Narus equipment.

Who would own the private roads? Could I?

Could I own the street my house is on?

Could I only allow certain people to travel on it?

Could I prohibit people from getting to their house?

What about the pipes under my road?

What if I don't want a manhole in my road?

Wouldn't buying a house be difficult if I changed the rent for the water pipes under my road quite often?

I could severely restrict the freedom of my neighbors.

Private roads are the dumbest idea since the Federal Reserve.

All you have to do is chip in a few bucks and all those hassles go away. Set a flat rate that is half of the upkeep, and when the roads become intolerable to where everyone agrees they need fixing, then raise the rate for a year and fix them.

by Keith Ackermann

# re: The best real-world argument for private roads?@ Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:05 PM

And you don't know who you're speaking to or who is behind the screen- but if I did, and I didn't like them, I, as Der Fuhrer, would expell them from my realm. Isn't that how the royal prerogative came about?

What a ridiclous suggestion; the difference between roads and the net is publicness. The internet is too private a creature to allow for transparency of not only from where one is going, but to where and with whom.

by stevenspadijer

# re: The best real-world argument for private roads?@ Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:47 PM

People can be excluded from roads today, despite roads being public. I do not buy this casual dismissal of my (stupid; ridiculous) suggestion.

by thedo