In the US gas taxes are very low and don&#x27;t even cover the costs of our highways. Local roads are paid for mostly with local taxes. It&#x27;s hard to quantify exactly the subsidy per passenger mile while driving, whereas it&#x27;s very easy to do the same for transit.<p>The system we have makes drivers feel as though they are paying their fair share while transit riders are not. They don&#x27;t see the share of their local taxes going to roads.