>Car drivers are more than self-sufficient. The state of Colorado just announced that there are some roads that will never be fixed, because there isn't the mo

>Car drivers are more than self-sufficient. The state of Colorado just announced that there are some roads that will never be fixed, because there isn't the money in the budget, and at the current rate there will never be (because the higher priority roads that the budget does fix will use up the budget perpetually). I've heard that at least one big city has a "97 year" road fixing rotation, again because the budget isn't there to keep the roads fixed. This is not even close to self-sufficiency for cars. If everyone took a bus there would be a small fraction of necessary road surface and wear-and-tear to repair. The reality is that cars have hidden costs paid by everyone, and that shifting some of those subsidies to public transit saves money.