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Originally Posted by RedDevil
Pay for road use sounds to me like micromanagement - the kind that kills freedom.
People don't go out on the road for the pleasure of using the road. They want to reach a destination.
If the road network is efficient and plentiful they reach it with ease.
If the road network is inefficient they spend more time and miles.
This by mile taxing system would reward inefficiency of the road system.
Making shortcuts would reduce state income.
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This is also what happens with toll lanes like on the 405 around Seattle. Now the government actually has an incentive to make traffic more congested as the toll varies based on how much time it saves you. The more congested the regular lanes, the higher the toll and the the more pure profit for government to waste on something else. Those lanes were mainly converted carpool lanes which did more to ease traffic then special lanes full of BMWs, Mercedes, and Lexus ever will. Some new lanes were built but mainly "merging" lanes which also just make it worse with extra lane changing and on top of it all everything was paid for from existing gas taxes paid for by the folks in the even more congested working class lanes.