I don’t actually know

Lol

I’ll look it up 1 sec

I would assume private

yee just curious, i would assume that too

Oh it’s only in MA

rip

competition doesn't apply to bridges: you have to cross specific bridges to get to specific places (that's how bridges work)

oh gotcha

and it’s private he’s

Yes*

I bet other places have other programs similar

yea

programs similar lol idk why I phrased it that way

but anyway yeah let's invest in our bridges

I understood either way xD

Another problem with that is

I live on cape cod

And when they were fixing the bridges

It was fucking aids

To cross

ooof I feel that, had a similar situation a couple summers ago

Took around 1-2hours to get to the mainland

yeah I mean there's no good way around that right? when you need to update infrastructure people are just boned who have to interact with that infrastructure

but I don't think that's an excuse to not repair things

like it sucks but we gotta do it

and last I checked our bridges are in a *seriously* bad state

and if they fail then the government is gonna have to intervene, and it'll be way more expensive to deal with a broken bridge than to repair an existing one

"wahxToday at 20:25
what? how does that make sense. You have to cross a bridge, and you can't cross any other bridge, why would they want to lower that cost?"

Competition between other methods of transport

The bridges are currently a monopoly

and it's the reason why it's so broken, not maintained well

Not to mention congestion and traffic blocks due to the free rider problem

free rider program?

which would be solved in a privatised system

Free rider problem

competition between bridges and... other methods of transportation? like what

I heard you lol can you explain it

people taking benefits from public goods they didn't contribute to

Now we have excess demands on these roads which leads to shortages

oh like companies driving trucks on roads without paying much in taxes by tax evasion

No