[sustran] Re: Driving Forces-further thoughts

[Gordon Selway]

On Kerry's point, rather than the book:

There is a separate problem, which arises from the provision of car parking
and location at sites more readily accessible by car rather than other
modes, namely that the non-drivers do not have access to the supermarket,
except by eg paying for a cab (all costs up front) one-way, or even both.
Or by going to a shop with higher prices which is much more readily
accessible to them.  In either way, the driver takes on some of the
supermarket's externalities, but does not shell out for them straightaway
(and in the UK certainly, some of those costs would have in effect been met
by the driver's employer, though this may be changing), but the non-driver
(often in the poorer, more social excluded groups of society) has to pay
immediately and from her/his own pocket.

[Or is this standard?]

wbw

Gordon Selway
<gordonselway at gn.apc.org>
[A planning/transport campaigner in the British Isles]

At 8:59 pm 27/6/1999, Kerry Wood wrote:
>Hi everybody

>Following up on Walter Hook's comments on James Dunn's book

>I think there IS some subsidy to drivers in supermarket parking lots:
>Drivers pay the same shop prices as non-drivers, so the non-drivers are
>subsidising parking. However, this effect is only large if most shoppers
>are non-drivers, and by then it doesn't matter much...

>But I shan't be buying the book: Thanks Walter

>Kerry Wood MIPENZ, MCIT
>Transport Consulting Engineer
>Phone/fax + 64 4 801 5549  e-mail kwood at central.co.nz
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