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Originally Posted by BrownTown
If a transit option requires spending $20+ per rider in government subsidies then clearly it is not very effective and should be cancelled.
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Fair enough, then we should stop funding highways as well.
"This subsidizing of car ownership costs the typical household about $1,100 per year—over and above the costs of gas taxes, tolls, and other user fees...
The bigger question is whether new roads—additional capacity—pays for themselves. Does the volume of traffic using a new bridge or additional lanes of freeway capacity pay for the road they use in their road taxes? New projects are so expensive—it’s roughly $100 million or more for a mile of urban freeway—that road users who pay the equivalent of 2 to 3 cents per mile of travel in gas taxes (depending on the tax rate and vehicle fuel efficiency) never contribute enough money for the public to recoup the costs of the new capacity."
https://www.theatlantic.com/business...-costs/412237/