Whether you personally own a car or not is only one variable, and perhaps not even the dominant variable, in the equation of the personal or household utility o

Whether you personally own a car or not is only one variable, and perhaps not even the dominant variable, in the equation of the personal or household utility of public roads. Everyone pays for the roads, and whether you have a car or not, you benefit tremendously from having them. Whether it is trucks stocking shelves at your local stores and grocer, vans delivering your Amazon packages, Lyfts bringing you to a customer meeting, or even indirectly, cars bringing people you’ll never meet—and hence economic activity—into your city, or into your high rise. Not having a car is a personal luxury enabled by the massive infrastructure that is built around you. That infrastructure is made possible by roads. Arguably people who don’t have cars are the ones who aren’t paying their fair share.