A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities.
It's doubtful that congestion pricing is going to lose money given that the roads already exist.
>A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities.
A mandatory payment enforced by the government is a "tax", not "price control".
People without children subsidize public schools. Healthy people subsidize sick people's insurance. Part of living in communities involve subsidizing services you don't use, that it occurs is not a problem, you need to argue that it should not be subsidized in the first place, and moving people by bus is better than moving people by car in a variety of ways.
That is the cost of living in world class cities with services.
I don't use every single suburban street of the state or every single interstate freeway. I still must pay taxes for it so that society functions.
If you are really so opposed to a functional society, you should really consider moving to rural villages with no services, and no taxes for them.