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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by kortilla on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:48PM (#32209816)
The vast vast majority of street damage comes from heavy trucks. Cars and light trucks likely do pay for their road usage (a car causes something like 1/10000th the wear as a tractor trailer).
Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by scoofy on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:16AM (#32210547)
If there is no per-mile fare, then there is no incentive not to use the road. Using gasoline as a proxy does not charge the people using complex and expensive overpasses more than people using surface streets.

There is no incentive to minimize construction and maintenance costs at all. No pay-as-you-go model like busses and trains have.

Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by kortilla on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#32306084)
You’ve just described a toll road, which are quite popular for highways in the US East.