I'm all for having fees/taxes correlate to how much roads are used.
Aren't there already gasoline taxes? Those would pretty much perfectly mirror usage, and aren't restricted to certain roads (which doesn't seem very fair). Plus the hippies who ride their bikes everywhere could rejoice and feel good about their granola-munching ways.
I'd suggest that governments start funnelling gasoline taxes into roads exclusively. If that means gas taxes have to go up, so be it.
It is a quick and easy solution that causes no increased costs (no tollbooths, no traffic slowdowns while people look for spare change, no expensive electronic toll systems).
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