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[quote user="Maglev"] Parking fess and highway taxes are the cheap part of relying on automobiles for transportation.  How about direct costs of the car itself?  Before I paid it off, my Toyota cost me $1,000 per month payment, finance charges, gas, insurance, and maintenance. I suspect that most users of these fora are middle-aged or retired; I certainly hope college students are busy preparing for final exams now.  Students could certainly benefit from improved public transportation, as many cannot afford an automobile. For many families, a second car for commuting is a necessity; and often that commute involves "intercity" travel.  For example, all of southern California from San Luis Obispo to San Diego is one megalopolis; separate cites now need to be united by trains for commuting.  As has been shown on these fora earlier, development of passenger trains in similar intercity corridors is a given: it is the only way to handle increased traffic. Therefore, vision and commitment are needed to develop routes outside the corridors to provide economical and envronmentally responsible transporation to and from places such as Knoxville, Ithaca, Bend, and College Station, Texas. [/quote] The cost of owning an automobile, including the depreciation, has nothing to do with transport subsidies.  These costs are paid by the owner.  In those states without a state income tax, filers can deduct their properly supported sales taxes, including those paid on a car, on Schedule A of their federal income tax return.  This is a minor federal subsidy, if you believe tax deductions are subsidies, but it pales compared to the subsidies required by passenger rail.  I have yet to read from any of your posts how you proposed to pay for your rail visions, other than to use taxpayer monies; that is to say, other peoples monies, to pay for them.
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