Re: Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

2002-02-25 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 09:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > also, much of this is disruptive technology ... either because of > technology itself and/or the second order effects of infrastructure cost > reduction ... which would tend to have a distabelizing effects on > operations that

Re: Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

2002-02-25 Thread lynn . wheeler
note that it didn't eliminate the economies of scale of network operation there is still massive investment required in things like fiber. some amount of the current pricing could possibly be an "overbuilt" & "over-invested" infrastructure ... some number of operations going bankrupt ... and

Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

2002-02-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 11:58 AM + on 2/24/02, Graham Lally wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1838000/1838185.stm For those on the left side of the pond, road pricing has been big issue in Britain, started by libertarian conservatives in the dawn of the Lady

BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'"

2002-02-24 Thread Graham Lally
An attempt to ease congestion, using GPS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1838000/1838185.stm "...The Commission, which provides independent transport advice to the government, said Global Positioning System satellites would track vehicles via electronic black boxes fixed to the das