Another springboard, this time from The Transport Politic
They have this quote:
» If we insist on charging car users to fund transit, we have to accept increasing highway spending in exchange for more public transport subsidies.
Which would more accurately put:
If we insist on not charging motorists for police, emergency services, long term road maintenance, (and they do not even pay a 100% of the new roads or general maintenance of the roads they use,) they will continue to need far greater subsidies then what has been “taken” by transit and other “non-motorized” uses.
Transit users pay into the system basically the same way auto users pay into the system, that it is to say what is paid in as “user fees” does not pay for everything that is used. It’s time to call a halt to this scam, as much as we would like to support more cars no one can afford it it. That’s is what is meant by not sustainable.
We are at a point if we gave all the money by motoring to motoring and all the current subsidies to mass transit and alternate uses it would be a huge boon to mass transit and other alternate modes of transportation and a huge loss to motoring.
Taxes for motoring have not kept up with the need and I don’t want to hear motoring is expensive enough without new taxes as that is precisely the point that has been proven… Support for motoring is really, really expensive and individuals don’t want to pay for it and we do not want to pay for it as a society.