As you already mentioned: roads and gas is heavily subsidized. Politicians focus on building roads rather than public transport systems. The true costs of road

As you already mentioned: roads and gas is heavily subsidized. Politicians focus on building roads rather than public transport systems. The true costs of road infrastructure including parking, bridges, land use, public space usage, health system costs, economic losses due to wasting time while driving and more is just something no one dares to discuss. Once u start looking at all costs car traffic truly is responsible for, you'd have to immediately switch to another system such as... public transport.