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I mean, OK, you could say the same about literally every public expenditure?

I'm passionately opposed to private automobiles and the fact that my tax money goes to subsidizing them (including stupid road upkeep etc)

unfortunately I don't get to choose not to pay for that (but I can choose to live in a place like Paris where the Mayor is taking active steps to support not only private automobiles but give equal importance to other modes of transport)




If you want emergency services vehicles to be able to access and help at any location, you want roads. That's what you're paying for.


Yeah because you ardent motorists care so much about emergency vehicle access right?

I don't have a problem with roads, I have a problem with roads being gridlocked and destroyed by single occupancy private automobiles and the resulting unnecessary deaths and road upkeep.


> Yeah because you ardent motorists

You need to be able to speak without classifying people into groups. I'm not an ardent motorist. I don't think it's good to allow myself to be indoctrinated into any of the (frankly bizarre) transportation-obsessed groups that exist.




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