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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by ericmay on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:30PM (#41822832)
I’m not sure if it’s the case here with Germany, but typically we refer to transit spending like this as “subsidies” but for some reason we forget that building and maintaining roads and highways and such are subsidies too.

In the case of the US and probably everywhere else, the highway subsidies are a little insidious too because not only do you pay a boatload of money for highway expansion you have to then go and buy an expensive car and fuel too.

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by gruez on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:26PM (#41824677)
>not only do you pay a boatload of money for highway expansion you have to then go and buy an expensive car and fuel too.

the federal excise tax on fuel pays for (at least in part) the "boatload of money for highway expansion "

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by Schiendelman on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:33PM (#41824704)
Not much. A lot more comes from state funding, which can be anything from property tax to sales tax to additional fuel taxes. Because you pay about the same fuel tax per mile on a 60 mph road as a 25 mph road (but the 60mph road costs 100x as much), you also find driving on slow roads becomes a subsidy to building fast roads.
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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by diordiderot on Sunday October 13, 2024 @06:11AM (#41826685)
No it doesn't.

Fuel tax income is ~100 Billion

Road expenditures are ~200 Billion

(Combined state and federal)

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