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Raising federal gasoline taxes to pay for infrastructure? Since when does that make sense? Let the people that use the subway, pay for the subway's maintenance-

Raising federal gasoline taxes to pay for infrastructure? Since when does that make sense? Let the people that use the subway, pay for the subway's maintenance-- that way, the larger the amount of people that use it, the more money that gets allocated to maintaining it. Keeping this kind of thing within the cities that are affected by the issues ensures that the amount of funding scales with the population of the cities, and ensures that a the infrastructure being maintained doesn't depend on the (often unreliable) federal government to give them money.

tobz 10y ago
If we assume that these systems are in dire need of repair (which many of them are), and that they are unreliable (which they frequently are), then it can be a hard sell to ask riders to pay more. Pay more for what? Improvements years from now, when what I really need is reliable transportation to and from my job NOW? Also, if we can continue with the assumptions about these systems, they're not in a position to sustain increased ridership or increased trips, which makes it very hard to capture that revenue in the way you propose.