On: Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

[sien]

Everywhere except the US cars pay far more in petrol tax than roads cost.

In Australia, where we have cheap petrol compared to Europe or Japan a little over half of petrol tax goes into roads or public transport.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being...

[TMWNN → sien]

>Everywhere except the US cars pay far more in petrol tax than roads cost.

US highways subsidize other forms of transportation, too. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222584>

[orwin → sien]

Does this tax pays for land value lost to parking requirements and for city roads? Because i know my petrol tax pays for roads in-between cities, I'm not sure it pays for city roads and for respiratory issues caused by cars.