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- From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
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- Message-ID: <rlcarr.09bx@animato.network23.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.154606.8643@m5.harvard.edu> <zippy.725042900@berry.cs.brandeis.edu> <BZS.92Dec23131029@world.std.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:25:12 EST
- Organization: The Other Side of Life
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- In article <BZS.92Dec23131029@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
- >
- > From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
- > >I personally don't object to the subsidization of the T, for the purpose
- > >of cutting down on automobile use, because I think that's an important
- > >enough goal. My objection is to also disallowing competing private service.
- >
- > Well, I don't disagree, but I cannot resist snidely pointing out that
- > they do have competing private service: They're called taxis.
-
- Not quite. The city caps the number of taxis and sets the rates.
- If the cap on medallions was removed and cabs were free to set their
- own rates (with the requirement that rates be the same for pickups in
- any part of the city -- typical common carrier-ish requirement), then
- I'd agree with you that taxis were a "competing private service."
-
- When a govermental body sets the number of cabs and sets the single price
- they can charge, it isn't close to being a "private service."
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