Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[danbrotherston]

Wired published an article this week about highway funding in the U.S.A. I generally trust their journalism (and also find them hilarious), and I found it interesting how they talked about not only how the funding for highways is not being covered by drivers, but also the many externalities of driving.

That was actually a really good article.  Of course, the comment threads are really telling as well, the typical protesting that of course drivers pay for all the costs of their habit, and also, that toll roads would be somehow bad and un-american.