Lets see...expanding highways is expensive...good thing it is paid for with fuel taxes.
Not true. Lawmakers don't increase fuel tax or tolls to keep up with the rising costs of highway maintenance.
So user fees barely pay for half of our highway budgets. Highways are being subsidized by other funds.
I've worked on enough railroad museums, local city streets, walking trails, and bike lanes...funded with fuel tax money...to know that the waters are alot muddier than you make it out to be.
If the money were not siphoned off for these type projects, we could get a clearer picture of how things get paid for.
Your own link shows that 15% of federal excise tax on fuel goes to mass transportation projects already.
Its a little disingenuous to say ‘highways are subsidized’...’we need mass transit’...without mentioning that highways are subsidizing mass transit.