Advocates of mass transit like to point out that it isn’t the only form of transportation that gets public subsidies. In particular, road construction and maintenance have benefited from increased taxpayer subsidies over the last decade and a half. But road subsidies remain a small component of that spending and are hardly the key factor that is making transit uncompetitive. Government subsidizes mass transit much more heavily than it subsidizes driving.
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