Conservative Funding Dissonance

Often I feel that people believe that paved roads are naturally-occurring, geological formations. As evidence, I submit the people complaining about road construction and maintenance work as if it's a ploy by the government to obstruct their travel, or the Lemming that I ran into a few weeks ago who was convinced that people in poor, developing countries have to drive cars, because it's too expensive to build bicycle infrastructure.
- That’s the result of cars being the global default.
  100 years ago you had loads of routes that were only accessible by rail, not road.
- Yes; North americas first transcontinental connection was the Pacific railway, finished 1845. It was completed before the first highway was ever built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad

Ah but the car option lends itself to strong individualism and personal choices, like "which dealer network do I want to get ripped off by?", or "which publically-subsidized gas company do I want to fund further?".
- And "which manufacturer's constant recall notices do I want to receive while many other fixes to safety and consumer wellbeing are fought and argued against for profit?"

I hate This so much in Germany Our Highways (Autobahn) are so expensive but Like No one cares but the second better Public Transit or Bike infastructur is brought Up so many people bitch About cost

“Yea, well I don’t need roads with my 41 inch lifted, 4x4 half ton truck, with 30 inch rims and r25 racing slicks”
- “Good luck crossing the local creek or any wooded area.
  Also, aren’t you the guy alway mumbling that you’d shoot someone who goes into your property. Good luck finding a driving route without going through anyone’s property.”

Reliance on cars helps continually isolate people as they go about their daily lives. It's important for fostering everyone's ruggedly individualistic, Randian grindset.
It also allows you to transport units of meat from the store freezer to the ice chest you keep in your basement (that you'll one day rely on to stave off hunger during the zombie apocalypse).

"We care about efficiency and the budget"
"Cool, so we could move way more people at a fraction of the cost if we built this passenger rai-"
"Woah there buddy, you didn't actually believe that stuff I said about the budget and efficiency, did you?"

Poor people getting govt assistance are welfare queens, but farmers getting rich off of government assistance? That's just morning in Murica 😅

We need to qoute the cost of trains separate from that of installing rails. Let people assume they can bring their own train from home.

I wish driving was a sustainable and humane method of transportation, but it really isn't. I do love driving but I also agree that suburban sprawl is awful and not sustainable financially and environmentally.

Be careful, Hungary is now experimenting with "privatizing" some roads.
- Ontario more or less did that a couple decades ago. Taxpayers funded the 407 which is a toll highway through Toronto. The Conservatives under Mike Harris in 1999, effectively "sold" the 407 to a foreign company for a paltry $3bn (technically, a 99 year lease, but for us that's about the same as being sold).
  The highway has since generated many multiples of that in revenue that is not going to fund Government projects, but to line the pockets of an investment conglomerate. As a result, rates have increased despite an "agreement" with the government to maintain rates as long as there is sufficient traffic, which has been exceeded and is steadily increasing.

Why is the text left to right, but the images have to be observed right to left to understand?

Well not really, cuz the conservatives want them to be toll roads. Built with public funds for private profit though, that's always fun.

When big train starts lobbying hard and kicking more into their 'campaigns' I'm sure their tune will change.
- They already do this. Unfortunately "big train" is a bunch of corrupt freight companies attacking passenger trains in order to maintain their privilege/profits/oligopy.

Is there two tracks with the train? It sorta seems like one. I really like the elevated design with the single pole. The city near me you have streets with poles on either side and no island on the road but I like this better. Would sorta be nice for an upside down Y or something on the bottom and have bike and pedestrian lanes through them to give cover from weather.

Govt doesn't have money nothing is govt funded.
- Actually I know ol' Govt personally and the guy is fuckin loaded
- Have you seen money lately? The state literally prints the money. The entire "economy" is state controlled.
- While it is true that nothing is funded with taxes, because taxes are an antiinflationary device, that doesn't mean that the government doesn't fund anything. Quite the opposite with a sovereign currency. The government of any country with a sovereign currency literally funds the entire economy of that country.