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Since the 1960s, the share of highway spending funded by user revenue (mostly gas taxes) has declined from better than 70 percent to less than 50 percent, the report shows. In 2012, taxpayers — not highway users, but taxpayers — provided $69 billion for highways nationwide.
You Don't Drive? Doesn't Matter: You'll Still Pay at Least $1,100 a Year So Others Can
Patrick Kerkstra
Half a century ago, the Danish capital was dominated by cars. But following grassroots campaigns to change policies and streets, including replacing car parking with safe, separated bike lanes, Copenhagen has increased its biking share of all trips from 10% in 1970 to 35% today.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
SUVs alone
But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors.
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
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