And as I wrote, focusing on transportation cost subsidies like this means leaving out environmental impacts, social impacts, subsidizes for maintaining the flow of oil, and other indirect costs.

Overshadowing all that is a century of deliberate planning decisions to promote car transit over all other forms - something an "antiplanner" should certainly be aware of and against - resulting in a system of land use and transportation policy which is locally optimized for vehicles, and which cannot be easily changed without substantial cost, even if there is a better option.

Do I know the answers? No. What I can say is I much prefer taking the train to taking the bus.