[sustran] Re: Reducing number of cars on the road

Paula Negron Poblete negronpp at MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA
Wed Mar 29 12:09:49 JST 2000


Concerning the thoughts of Mohsin Sarker about social inequality, my
thinking is that in develonig countries these inequalities already
exists. When autorities decide to invest in highways to solve the
congestion problem, it's a project that affects possitively mostly the
high clases, if you consider that more than 50% of households doesn't
have a private car (and that represents much more than 50% of the total
population). So, when we talk about higher prices in fuel or congestion
prices, I really don't think we're creating social inequality. I see
social inequality more as a matter of accessibility to employment, like
it's the case today. For more information about this subject, I recomend
the article of Paulo Camara and David Banister "Spatial inequalities in
the provision of public transport in Latin American cities" (Transport
reviews, 1993, vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 351-373).

Paula Negron
University of Montreal



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