The Conference Board of Canada Greatly Overestimates the Degree to which Drivers Cover Road Costs
by Bernhard
Recently the Conference Board of Canada released a study that claims that upwards to 90% of Ontario road costs are covered by drivers. The purported findings of the study were gleefully touted by all major news sources, and if one was careless enough to read appending user-comments, one could expect that they were rife with remarks of smug self-satisfaction and entitlement, and perhaps claims of moral superiority in the horrific “war on cars.” I was immediately sceptical of the findings […]
Categories: Economy, Transportation • Tags: cars, Conference Board of Canada, road costs, transportation
