In the United States there is a gas tax but it hasn’t been adjusted for a long time and pays less than half of the cost of the roads. EVs are also becoming a factor so what I’d like would be an annual tax based on the combination of vehicle weight & pollution, especially since the comically large vehicles a lot of solo office commuters use take up enough space to prevent many roads from handling two lanes of traffic without someone pulling over to the side.

The other big factor we have is that there’s a lot of soft subsidy built in with things like minimum parking requirements, and a lot of both road and parking infrastructure is paid for by developers when first constructed but falls back to the city or private owners for maintenance. That will only make the current imbalance worse over time.