> It is built in major metro areas, and requires endless subsidies to stay afloat in all but one of those areas.
So how do you thing roads are build? Is that not a subsidy? Especially out in rural areas where people always complain the loudest that public transport doesn't work because it requires subsidies. If you would make people pay for their road use, rural living would very quickly become unsustainable for most.
Let's not even talk about all the externalities like land cost of those roads especially in metropolitan areas.
> So how do you thing roads are build? Is that not a subsidy?
No? In my area, new local roads are normally built by developers and maintained by HOAs, with fuel taxes covering most state and federal road work (I think it should all be covered by fuel taxes personally).
> Especially out in rural areas where people always complain the loudest that public transport doesn't work because it requires subsidies.
Public transportation makes absolutely no sense in rural areas, so I'm not sure what your point is here.
> If you would make people pay for their road use, rural living would very quickly become unsustainable for most.
People do pay for road use, via fuel taxes, so again I'm not sure what your point is here.
> Let's not even talk about all the externalities like land cost of those roads especially in metropolitan areas.
Feel free to talk about it in detail, instead of playing the usual "Oh, the externalities! Why won't anyone think of the externalities!" game I see over and over from public transit advocates.
> > So how do you thing roads are build? Is that not a subsidy?
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> No? In my area, new local roads are normally built by developers and maintained by HOAs, with fuel taxes covering most state and federal road work (I think it should all be covered by fuel taxes personally).
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> > Especially out in rural areas where people always complain the loudest that public transport doesn't work because it requires subsidies.
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My point is, even if roads are build and maintained by fuel taxes only (as you point out they usually are not, and in most countries much of the road network was build using other income sources), those fuel taxes are a not local (happy to be corrected though), i.e. rural roads get massive subsidies from metropolitan areas.
So how do you thing roads are build? Is that not a subsidy? Especially out in rural areas where people always complain the loudest that public transport doesn't work because it requires subsidies. If you would make people pay for their road use, rural living would very quickly become unsustainable for most.
Let's not even talk about all the externalities like land cost of those roads especially in metropolitan areas.