AFAIK a big reason for this is because we’re utterly anal about making everyone pay for railways, while roads are obviously necessary for civilization to exist and thus they’re perfectly free to use!
it’s the same corrupt double standard that applies to public transport, it’s just a systemic “oppression” of efficient systems in favour of inefficient ones that let money be funneled into the pockets of asphalt manufacturers and car companies and whatnot.
AFAIK a big reason for this is because we’re utterly anal about making everyone pay for railways, while roads are obviously necessary for civilization to exist and thus they’re perfectly free to use!
it’s the same corrupt double standard that applies to public transport, it’s just a systemic “oppression” of efficient systems in favour of inefficient ones that let money be funneled into the pockets of asphalt manufacturers and car companies and whatnot.