[woodruffw]

In addition to what others have said: everything you've said is a reason to lower end-user public transit costs, not lower car tolls. A well-structured scheme here would simultaneously disincentivize individual car traffic and use some of the funds from that disincentivization to subsidize public transit.

[twelve40]

yeah, but - guess what? - nobody is even talking about it, just inventing new ways to punish the car owners offering no improved options.