Whenever the subject of public funded transportation, light rail, buses, Amtrak etc comes up, the argument against is always along the lines that taxpayers shouldn't be expected to subsidize transport for others. "Amtrak should pay its own way" and the like. However, few seem to realize that freeways, surface streets, streetlights and all the other accoutrements of driving don't "pay their way". Or that if the car companies had to build and maintain the roads, as rail companies are expected to do with tracks, the cost of motoring would be significantly higher. Somehow it's just a given that the public should subsidize the car industry.

To me, that's just the same mentality being explored here. Motorists aren't selfish when they expect the whole world to pander to them, but anyone who uses another form of transportation is.