Ok Chris, Mr. Groom Lake, I'm so sure you'd take your wife and kids through that intersection.

I hope the answer is known.

Santiago had a subway system that competed below the suface with all of the private transportation vehicles above ground. I know of no public transportation in the world that shows a profit, so I am assuming that the subway was losing money and being subsidized.

My question is: What was the amount of the subsidy when surface transportation was private, and what was the amount after surface transportation was made public and also subsidized? If those figures can be sorted out.

I am not computer skilled enough to ferret out those numbers. I know that I assume and anticipate large numbers, but how large?

watch this video of traffic without laws."

I hope you're not using this to argue for the necessary role of government.

Notice how people figure out the laws on the fly and the result is zero accidents.

Ignacio,

Sorry to break it to you, my friend; but, in the socialist world no failure of any kind caused by central planning ever discredits central planning.

The failures of cental planning is, in the socialist excuse factory, always caused by something else: The people just didn't understand the issues. The people were misled by those evil capitalists. The contractor didn't deliver good goods. We didn't spend enough money on educating the people. We didn't spend enough money on central planning.

The list of exucses is endless, but central planning remains the holy grail.