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Per usual, so many hypocrites here. Without roads you would not exist. Your emergency services, your grocery stores deliveries, and the products you buy all use roads and highways. If you don't want a car or a road to drive on, move to a mountain away from everyone and stop bothering people.
Yes, roads are important. Attributing costs to who or what is causing those costs is still a good idea.
Paying for roads is fine, paying for 10 lanes of roads that only exist because the real costs aren't included in all kinds of decision making is dumb.
Wow, edgy take. You came here to fuckcars with a wild, untamed, edgy take like that?
I do think it's important to reject the neoliberal demand that all services pay for themselves. I think a heat map showing percentages of local/state and federal funds spent on non-car transit infrastructure would be more useful and interesting. Or, a heat map showing the percentage of roads in each state which the state is currently able to afford upkeep on. As the big issue with our road funding model is that it's easy to build, almost impossible to maintain.
You can have all that without 10-lane highways.
yeah, roads, not highways