ah yes, the economically efficient method of requiring every person to own an expensive and huge steel death machine, then having them all drive to the same location separately
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Yeah, but have you considered freedom?
feeling so free having to constantly worry that my death machine is okay also remember where i put it also if i or anyone else around me ever fucks up ill be either dead or in debt also-
Also paving roads, asphalting them, maintaining them. Gas stations at frequent intervals. Parking. Traffic enforcement.
Do these people think the ground just does that? Like roads are just there?
Literally yes, we had a guy on here like a month ago that was arguing that there was no way for us to actually make trains because there is was no way to get the land for it. They think the highways just appeared out of no where and aren't a recent invention a little less than a century old.
The funny thing is even if with the burden of cost shoved onto individuals roads are still just insanely expensive for transport and as such everybody has both the cost of infrastructure filtered through taxes AND the direct costs of owning a vehicle
Highways, famously neither expensive nor dedicated.
airports also
The bearings that those pallets roll around on are super cool. 
High speed freight rail sounds like the perfect solution for shipping perishable food long distances.
The issue is connection. If there aren't stations near the farms they'll need to be transported to the nearest metropolitan center then shipped.
Ah yes, air transport, famously requiring no infrastructure and not consuming any notable quantity of resources. Also famously not taxpayer subsidized.
so what does a highway offer besides transportation?
lucrative contracts?
freedum 
Car sales
Gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons and automobile dealerships, and wonderful wonderful billboards as far as the eye can see
Apart from efficiently serving the important purpose it was built to serve, what purpose does it serve?
Even beyond the environmental impact traveling a long distance by car sucks so much more than riding on a train, with trains you can literally be sleeping, eating or using the toilet and still making progress on your journey.
It's more comfortable, and FASTER. Could even be cheaper, traveling by car is very expensive
"did carbon dioxide write this" the Cato institute did so yes basically
You know, it's just moving human beings, nothing important.