Other people have pointed out that roads are subsidized heavily through taxes, but just to be blunt: nobody is asking you to specially subsidize public transit. We are just asking taxpayers to treat public transit with the same deference they treat the road system. The people who use our public transit system in Washington are taxpayers too as we all pay sales tax equally. And if they rent they pay property tax indirectly via their landlord.
Nobody is getting a free ride except if we continue to disproportionately fund the road system at the expense of denser forms of transportation.
Nobody is getting a free ride except if we continue to disproportionately fund the road system at the expense of denser forms of transportation.