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Originally Posted by 81MC
Why can’t you store other things on the roadway? Because for a motor vehicle to be on the roadway, it must be registered, insured, and moveable? Fuel also carries a heavy tax that goes to fund infrastructure you can choose to cycle, walk, bus, or otherwise use.
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But gas tax doesn’t even come close to covering the cost of roads, not to mention the excess space and sprawl caused by a city devoted to moving and storing vehicles.
You make it sound like drivers are doing us all a favour by paying for pedestrian, cycling and transit infrastructure but they’re not — they’re actually a huge burden on the taxbase because roads are an expensive way to move people around. Drivers don’t even pay for their own costs let alone secondary impacts and externalities born by society not by individual drivers.