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Mikemo05 t1_j1efrzd wrote

Reply to comment by JeromePowellAdmirer in RIP To Anyone Travelling Out of Hoboken by Castor_and_Pollux123

Cars pay for the roads.

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_j1elwum wrote

Do you think transit riders don't pay for transit too? User fees come nowhere close to covering the costs of these things.

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Mikemo05 t1_j1em62f wrote

Exactly. Car infrastructure is mostly covered by gas tax and taxes when you buy the car. So it's not taking govement money to build new road projects. While on the other hand transit doesn't profit in most cities. Same reason why bike lanes suck.

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