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We built roads mainly for trucks. Because this infrastructure ensures, that we have food in the supermarkets, material on the construction sites and in worst ca
by okr 2y ago
We built roads mainly for trucks. Because this infrastructure ensures, that we have food in the supermarkets, material on the construction sites and in worst case, tanks quickly in the areas needed. So if it was me, trucks can use the streets for free all day long and tax me for that, to build and maintain this infrastructure.
But for private leisure like biking an extra pathway, no thanks, they can pay for that themselves. Its nice to have.
- saurik 2y agoThose trucks are doing things for people, and different people cause different amounts of trucks. If you have some cool use case for a ton of trucks--as a consumer, buying a kind of product or service that causes trucks to go back and forth to satisfy your interests--you should bear more of the cost of maintaining the roads for those trucks than I do, or you get a tragedy of the commons where the cost of constantly rebuilding roads is thrown at everyone and no one is incentivized to lower their use of trucks.
- BizarroLand 2y agoThere are well over 300,000,000 million people in America, each needing food, clothing, and entertainment in order to be productive members of society. The sheer number of humans necessitates the existence of trucks. The fairytale alternative that some people spout where everyone walks or uses bicycles and roads last forever is perfect as long as almost everyone dies first. Either that or the world as we know it must be destroyed so that this fictional better one can take its place.
- saurik 2y agoWhile we all do need trucks, some people and some businesses cause the need for more trucks than other people. Just because something is provided by government doesn't entirely divorce it from capitalism.
- JohnFen 2y agoBike paths get people to drive less, saving road maintenance money.