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Privatising roads would benefit drivers and taxpayers
Gabriel Roth
14 June 2013
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Governments do not always support mobility. The Duke of Wellington objected to railways because they would "only encourage the lower classes to move about needlessly". United States...
The case for raising speed limits
Richard Wellings
9 May 2013
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If major roads were privately owned and freed of government regulation, the setting of speed limits would be a commercial decision. Entrepreneurs would seek to attract customers to their routes in...
Snow chaos – could private roads do better?
Richard Wellings
7 January 2010
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The current cold snap has led to widespread disruption on Britain’s roads. Much of the network has been left untreated as local authorities have struggled to cope and many routes have been...

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