Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[danbrotherston]

Single occupant vehicle drivers still provide a massive amount of economic and social benefit to our society.  They're not just costs.

We have vast areas of the province/country that do not have the density to support any reasonable form of mass transportation.  People need to get to/from those areas to their place of employment.  Even when a person lives/works in an area that can support mass transportation they may need to drive for a portion of their commute.

"Need to drive for a portion of their commute"...no, that's a land use choice, not a requirement of the mode.  But that's another discussion entirely.

Yes, there are areas of the province which don't support mass transit, I'm not talking about those areas, obviously.  But "single occupant vehicle commuter" is long enough already, rather than saying "single occupant vehicle commuter in an area dense enough to support mass transit".

In are's which are dense enough to support mass transit, there is no social benefits to providing personal transportation by single occupant vehicle over mass transit, only costs.