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Originally Posted by accord1999
What's wrong with user pay? The original argument was about subsidies of infrastructure, roads have low subsidies because car users are paying most of the costs of driving directly. Even for a successful transit system (by North American standards), Calgary transit users pay less than 50% of the cost of operating transit and essentially 0% of the capital costs.
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What is the mechanism by which drivers are 'directly paying for most of the costs' of roads' and transit users, which is pay-to-use, aren't?