{"id":6045,"date":"2021-09-20T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2021-09-20T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:44:45","slug":"no-you-didnt-pay-for-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6045","title":{"rendered":"No, You Didn&#8217;t Pay for the Roads!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the UK there is something known as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vehicle_Excise_Duty\">vehicle excise duty<\/a>&#8221; which the owners of <em>some<\/em> motorised vehicles have to pay. Before 1937, this was paid into a road fund used exclusively to pay for the creation of the road network. But from that date, roads are funded out of general taxation and local council taxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which means that everyone (or just about everyone) is paying for the roads and that is no bad thing &#8211; we all benefit to some extent (although the pollution is a bit of a drag). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=695%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1535&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-08-22-filthy-roaring-beasts-rushing-along-the-scar.jpeg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption>Filthy Roaring Beasts Rushing Along The Scar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting thing is that because local roads are locally funded (to an extent), there is a good chance that a pedestrian is paying more for the roads within a city than the car driver &#8211; the driver is more likely to be a visitor to the city and thus pays considerably less. So by the argument that whoever pays should have priority, it should be the pedestrian who does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK there is something known as &#8220;vehicle excise duty&#8221; which the owners of some motorised vehicles have to pay. Before 1937, this was paid into a road fund used exclusively to pay for the creation of the road network. But from that date, roads are funded out of general taxation and local council <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6045' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[2055,969,446,447,2056],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-road-tax","tag-drivers","tag-pedestrians","tag-roads","tag-vehicle-excise-duty","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1zv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}