Luis Rodolfo Morán Quiroz http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8788102
Today you are in a position to buy a new vehicle it costs 150 thousand pesos. The holding and other formalities another ten thousand pesos. Add in insurance for your new car. If you're smart, buy a car that is not in the list of most stolen in Mexico (some Nissan and VW leading the list) and thereby reduce insurance premiums. The total to time: 165 thousand pesos.
Your new vehicle gasoline works very well with Magna, eight pesos a liter. If you pay for servicing two thousand dollars a year, costs that can add to the eight thousand dollars to spend in the thousand liters that will serve to cover the first ten thousand miles. At current prices, that equates to a cost of ten thousand dollars annually in fuel and services, and payments holdings, plate endorsements, checks, an occasional penalty for traffic infractions, which will add another ten thousand a year. Say your car survives six years in good condition and does go hundred thousand kilometers. And 120 are thousand dollars from fines, services and fuel, which added to the 165 000 initial weights give a total of 285 thousand pesos for the first hundred thousand kilometers, equivalent to 47.500 pesos annually.
You do not pay parking while at work, no accidents involving pay the insurance deductible, nor will it attachments and goodies to your vehicle. If they do, incur additional costs. How much kilometer came out? Almost three dollars per kilometer. How many of those hundred thousand miles on the road you would travel from one city to another? The broad avenues and transfers relatively fast (40 miles per hour average) are not equivalent to road trips.
What if we compare the costs of transportation in a private vehicle with the cost of shipments by foot, bicycle, public transport? Are your shoes so expensive that every mile I walk in they will cost three dollars or more? How far can go with normal tires and a bicycle team of six thousand dollars? Do you think the bike would end within two thousand miles (if that gives the proper maintenance)? How many trips does a regular user of public transport to those that cost 285 000 pesos their hypothetical transfers for six years? The price of public transport are 47.500 Guadalajara travel. Even if the person is transported by public transport had to address four different buses a day, it would mean the equivalent of 11.875 days to move. Including Saturdays and Sundays, just over 32 years.
Is it worth "investing" in a road vehicle to be used primarily in the city? Would not it be wise to invest in public transport? Stated another way: why, whom we move into the cities, we chose to spend our money on buying a private car rather than push for transportation improvements collective? How many users of private vehicles over the years we wasted, through the politicians who represent us to spend our money in taxes, private vehicles, the local councils and taxpayers, our time and air we breathe, to push for wider streets in the fit more and more fast cars, in which there are fewer trees and where there are so many fatalities from collisions between the vehicles and between them and pedestrians dare approach the roads and not so much?
Why are we encouraging the confrontation between blade against skin and do not promote the use of alternative methods for average distances in urban transportation? On the other hand, what happens to our regional transportation system, instead of having trains between relatively close cities (eg Tepatitlán Guadalajara, Aguascalientes and Leon) still resort to expensive highway system "quota" in which all cooperate to bottle or accident and pay to use a surface with our own vehicles for those who already pay many other costs?
How surfaces occupying the streets, increasingly large, and roads, increasing more lethal, we consume living spaces, green areas, leisure or even work? What is the logic of change vehicles every few years or to repay kilometers, from the beginning, many costs and the desire to retain the manufacturer's warranty and contribute to additional taxes on basic costs of maintaining a vehicle working? What keeps apart from official policies to promote the purchase and sale of new cars all of which are foreign brands, which users of the cities we are using public transport and supplemented with transfers cycling and walking? Are we what prevents our belief that the vehicle more powerful, more shiny, more equipped, more powerful will also make our egos and our personal qualities most attractive? Do not use public transport and alternative means because we hate sweating and prefer to spend our time and money to repair the damage we cause more global warming and generating more heat in our environment?
Do you gamble to that logic the governor, the proposal to build an exclusive road cars to charge them to go? Are you willing to add to the costs of moving from one place to another of a toll for crossing the city from south to north and vice versa?
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