Re: jobs apocalypse

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:52:59 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Socializing the cost

Example

The report documents that the amount that road users pay through gas
taxes now accounts for less than half of what we spend to maintain and
expand the road system. The shortfall is made up from other sources of
tax revenue at the state and local level. This subsidization of car
users costs the typical household about $1,100 per year - over and
above what they pay in gas taxes, tolls and other user fees.

There are good reasons to believe that the methodology of Who Pays for
Roads, if anything, considerably understates the subsidies to private
vehicle operation. It doesn't examine the hidden subsidies associated
with the free public provision of on-street parking, or the costs
imposed by nearly universal off-street parking requirements, that
drive up the cost of commercial and residential development. It also
ignores the indirect costs that come to auto and non-auto users alike
from the increased travel times and travel distances that result from
subsidized auto oriented sprawl. And it also doesn't look at how the
subsidies to new capacity in some places undermine the viability of
older communities (a point explored by Chuck Marohn at length in in
his Strong Towns initiative.)

https://cityobservatory.org/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-way/