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I assume you're referring mainly to road / infrastructure maintenance? If not what? (I'm curious)
I agree with you in part, but a lot of that is to facilitate transport for business, goods, etc. so if even if you don't drive you benefit. Regardless, lots of us subsidise lots of things - especially if you're under 35 without children. That's just life.
I just dislike the premise that driving is always some sort of extravagant actively that is always wasteful and needs to be punished without options being put forward. Realistically what are the alternatives if you've got say 3 kids and you live outside of a major city in the 'burbs with no decent sized shops around what do you do?
It's easy for me to say people should drive less because I've got about 12 cornershops, 2 sainsburys, a tesco, and a lidl within 10mins walk as well as a tube, train, and a ton of buses. When I do drive it is predominantly a leisure/potentially extravagant actively - going away for the weekend, holiday etc. So increasing costs further would have a relatively small impact on me because my use is low. For others, especially at a time when real inflation is rocketing it makes life a lot harder.