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It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient... Driv
by wokky 8y ago
It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient...
Driving is subsidised in about a zillion different ways in the US; it's already hideously, ruinously expensive, we just don't realize it. You wouldn't have to artificially raise the price of driving to make it less appealing, you'd only have to make the actual costs more transparent.
- supertrope 8y agoRoads are indeed often financed from the general government budget in addition to fuel, registration, tire tax. But many voters like having more roads. In effect the majority is subsidizing its own desires. It's a self-reinforcing status quo of people who accept government spending on roads, traffic congestion, crash casualties, total cost of ownership of a car in the thousands of USD per year, physical inactivity, and air pollution. And they expect free parking and cheap gasoline.