Employers are subject to market forces just like everyone else. If they need workers in order to make money, but workers can&#x27;t afford to get to work, they will pay more money. Not by choice, by necessity. If you don&#x27;t believe that, fine. Just raise the minimum wage instead. Subsidizing the usage of road space is a terrible solution to the problem you&#x27;re describing.<p>Road space is scarce. Poor people get less scarce goods. Luckily, road space is easy to share, which is what poor people do with scarce things. This is not an affront to the current order. There are plenty of things I want to pay for so poor people can have more of them. Road space is not one of them.