8% of streets cause the majority of fatal crashes but does anyone understand that making those streets safe requires getting people out of cars? #VisionZero needs #VMTreduction, not flashing lights.
#transportation utility fee as a replacement for the #gasTax is a terribly unpopular idea because we're tired of subsidizing #carSupremacy. Crank up the fucking gas tax until drivers are breaking even, and then ask me about creating a source of funding that will still work when you make people quit driving. 🙄 "Portland Bureau of cart befOre The horse", here. #PBOT#FuckCars
Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.
And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free
@jay_peper In principle, gas taxes should fund road maintenance and construction. However, in the US "in 2011, highway user fees and user taxes made up just 50.4 percent of state and local expenses on roads."