Toll roads are fine as long as other routes exist to go to the same place, otherwise you artificailly restrict movement: a) To those wealthy enough to pay b)

Toll roads are fine as long as other routes exist to go to the same place, otherwise you artificailly restrict movement: a) To those wealthy enough to pay b) to those the toll road agree to let pass And you have no choice but to increase the toll road's wealth each time you use the road. Moreover, it's a monopoly, which means that the toll road operator has no incentive to keep the road cheap nor well maintained, as long as there is not enough incentive for the public to open a new road. A slightly better situation to be in is when there are multiple operators with multiple alternative toll roads, unfortunately: c) That's a waste of duplicated efforts d) It only works as long as there is no price collusion occuring e) It doesn't solve the previous points. And I think this is the point here. Are there viable paths with no tolls on them? We also need strong regulations for basic public service, and ensure that there is no monopoly.