Is pretty similar in Australia. Registration isn’t a road use fee, it’s a deadly weapon use fee, a large part of which is compulsory third party insurance, but the average driver thinks they’re ‘paying their way’ with it. It’s also a state fee, while most of the roads we drive on day to day are built and maintained by local councils, which everyone pays for via property rates regardless of choice of transport.
We’re also grappling with the increasing popularity of electric vehicles and the loss of fuel excise revenue from that, and how to recoup that from ev owners, which they don’t like.
Even so, car driving is still the most heavily subsidised form of transport around.
Is pretty similar in Australia. Registration isn’t a road use fee, it’s a deadly weapon use fee, a large part of which is compulsory third party insurance, but the average driver thinks they’re ‘paying their way’ with it. It’s also a state fee, while most of the roads we drive on day to day are built and maintained by local councils, which everyone pays for via property rates regardless of choice of transport.
We’re also grappling with the increasing popularity of electric vehicles and the loss of fuel excise revenue from that, and how to recoup that from ev owners, which they don’t like.
Even so, car driving is still the most heavily subsidised form of transport around.