Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.

And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free

@jay_peper Imagine the furor if businesses who use the roads had to pay to use them...
@bulwynkl @jay_peper You should also have to get your mileage read every year and pay a fee based on road damage caused.
@jerseygryphon @bulwynkl @jay_peper I find this type of argument disingenuous- motorists pay gas tax, wheel tax, registration tax, tolls, there's all kinds of ways you pay for the road depending where you drive 😅

@ryanprior
Yeah, that's a really big "depending on where you drive".
In my country local roads are paid for almost exclusively by property owners in local body taxes. Fuel taxes etc go to the national body, who use them mostly for state highways with a bit for road safety campaigns and to part fund alternative modes of transport. Vehicle registration goes to road safety and "Accident" compensation scheme, not road building or maintenance

@jerseygryphon @bulwynkl @jay_peper

@RedRobyn nuanced response & makes sense. Must say I liked it best when you wrote "local toads" that delighted me 🐸✨
@ryanprior
The local toads are probably the motorists who insist cyclists should not be on the roads as they don’t pay fuel taxes. The highways their taxes pay for don’t have many cyclists riding on them