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What is the economic case for government intervention to restrict or discourage road transport?
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Seminar 19: Transport & Environment Policies (i) What is the economic case for government intervention to restrict or discourage road transport? There is no better symbol of a liberal democracy than the private automobile. Freedom of movement is one of the bedrock principles that all Western countries espouse, and the role of the car in facilitating this has made freedom of movement almost synonymous with the right to own a car. For many years, governments did their best to encourage car ownership, seeing it as a positive sign of economic growth, and went to considerable lengths to build a transport infrastructure capable of supporting the car. Equally, such was public approval of private road vehicles that governments could no afford to appear anti-motorist. However, by the 1990's the negative environmental and social impacts of road transport were becoming impossible to ignore, and with greater understanding of these problems came greater understanding of...
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