How will states pay for roads when gas taxes evaporate?

You’re making it an OR when it’s an AND.

You can have vast forests and parks, massive shopping, and entertainment at a distance AND still live in a livable, walkable place.

If you want to live in a very large home with a huge shop, that’s also possible.

The current model excludes walkable and livable cities in favor of car dependency. Lack of car dependency doesn’t exclude the use of cars or having a mix of use cases. But car dependence by nature does.

Nobody is saying you can’t have central parks, Costco and theme parks or whatever use cases you’re referencing. But you should also enjoy a neighborhood coffee shop and local grocery, a bakery down the street and places for your kids to play while you have dinner right in your own neighborhood.

These are foreign concepts for those used to the suburbs and I often get accosted with comments like your which are deeply valid but reinforce just one set of values without really considering that it’s not a competition, but an addition and enhancement to our way of life — more of a return to what our grandparents enjoyed — that walkable cities is advocating. There is a full spectrum of possibilities.

I won’t even get into the higher property values, healthier lifestyles, reduced cancer and heart disease risks and increased lifespans, the more deeply connected communities… moving away from just cars as the foundation for moving around, between and therefore for planning our cities generates many virtuous cycles.

So, no resistance. You can have it all, but consider that cities could be a LOT better if we struck a real balance.

You should see what people are building…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrnAsMSwGbg&pp=ygUPV2Fsa2FibGU...

Higher vehicle registration fees. Higher taxes on electricity producers. Taxes on mileage, etc, etc.

The states have six ways to Sunday to extract money from you. Taxes never get reduced, they always go higher. Only Death is more inevitable.

state inspections here record mileage and is used to validate low mileage discount on insurance. it could also be used to determine road use tax. as for public vrs private roads. assume all travel is public roads and let the user provide acceptable documentation that they traveled on private roads (gps tracks)