Comments on: Turnpikes VS The Real World http://thatsjustbob.com/politicalblog/1494/turnpikes-vs-the-real-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turnpikes-vs-the-real-world Conservative Blog for Conservatives by Conservatives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack J http://thatsjustbob.com/politicalblog/1494/turnpikes-vs-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Jack J Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:59:09 +0000 http://thatsjustbob.com/politicalblog/?p=1494#comment-542 In retail there are three factors to your business profitability - customer count, transaction amount, and margin. You can increase your gross by increasing your customer count as long as you transaction amount stays constant, or you can increase you transaction amount and hope you customer count stays the same or you can increase you margins by reducing your expenses or cost of the product. So concerning the turnpikes - what is it? Can they cut their cost? Can they increase the toll without loosing customers? Will the raise in tolls make up for the possible traffic loss? I hope they looked at all of them. In retail there are three factors to your business profitability – customer count, transaction amount, and margin. You can increase your gross by increasing your customer count as long as you transaction amount stays constant, or you can increase you transaction amount and hope you customer count stays the same or you can increase you margins by reducing your expenses or cost of the product.

So concerning the turnpikes – what is it? Can they cut their cost? Can they increase the toll without loosing customers? Will the raise in tolls make up for the possible traffic loss? I hope they looked at all of them.

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