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Because the majority of roads nowadays in use were built in 1830... /sarcasm Here, even 70 years ago, several roads were just a dusty path through fields and m
by mlbmlb 13y ago
Because the majority of roads nowadays in use were built in 1830... /sarcasm
Here, even 70 years ago, several roads were just a dusty path through fields and many of them didn't exist yet. When they were actually built as a road, it was done for cars, buses, trucks and it was done from steep consumption taxes on gas and later from country-wide toll imposed on cars.
Of course, YMMV in your country. But I really think that you didn't have asphalt-paved 10 m wide roads 180 years ago.
- alxndr 13y agore: paying for building roads, http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themselves http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themsel...
- akgerber 13y agoLocal roads, which bicyclists mostly use, are generally paid for by property taxes or other local taxes, at least in the US. Only highways are paid for by federal gas taxes, and since that tax has been declining in real terms since 1993, highway funding also comes from general tax revenue.