> A huge number of the people in those cities wanted automobiles. That's why governments taxed people to pay for the roads for those cars. What is the basis of

> A huge number of the people in those cities wanted automobiles. That's why governments taxed people to pay for the roads for those cars. What is the basis of that? Perhaps, having the option of roads; and being led, to a degree by leaders' belief in roads, they wanted cars. Seeing public transit and seeing leaders' belief it it, they might have used that.