[Demoneeri]

It's funny that you are using "heavily subsidized public transport" while using the entierly subsidized road system...

[asjw]

Disclaimer: I've been car free for the past three years.

I agree that roads are public infrastructure, but car owners are heavily taxed in Europe, especially some parts of Europe.

In Italy, excluding fuel taxes (which cover 70% of the cost of the fuel BTW) every car owner pays a mandatory "car owning tax" for each car they own, that totals around 5-6 billions euros/year. And it's only the main one, there are several others.

[fragmede]

In the US, it's called a car registration fee, but it's the same thing - a tax on owning a car.

[LIV2]

Just about all public road systems are subsidised but are public transport systems?. This will work better in cities with cheap/free public transport

[osdiab]

Or if like in some other parts of the world public transit companies can profit off the development around train stations, and then treat the trains as marketing that literally funnels trainloads of people to their profit centers.

[microcolonel]

> entirely

Forgetting fuel taxes?

[strider12]

Excise tax, Gas Tax, Tolls, Registration Fees, Inspection Fees ... Parking fee's... Cars pay their way to the point of making the country profitable in that regard...