In the stickied index is a commish or trade section you should post this in . <| sep |> dont you know how much tito and dana love each other ? <| sep |> You could say that about literally any tax . You ' re free to make a case about anything you like , I ' ve made a case against freeways and you have been unable to argue against it . Long distance travel is part of North American culture . Urban sprawl allows cheaper housing due to the larger area that can be inhabited by an urban population . The only reason Toronto ' s infrastructure is congested is that there isn ' t enough infrastructure . Looks at Chicago . they have subways and highways running everywhere . Toronto has 4 highways and 2 subway lines . Tolling the 401 would effectively be using a bucket to bail out a sinking aircraft carrier . You can ' t . You just have to build another one . You ' re confusing cause and consequence , long distance travel is common in North America because we ' ve built untolled freeways from 1950 s on . Tolling freeways would allow us to refocus less on transport and more on our communities , as we did prior to that point . Urban freeways are not a proper solution to metropolitan transport needs . Subways provide many times the passenger capacity for lower costs than freeways . In Montral , the Dcarie freeway , built in a trench , cost 7 times more than the initial subway network to build , and they were built at the same time , and the subway can carry 3 times more people . You still need freeways to help freight get around a metropolitan area , but you don ' t need a lot of them , you just need them to be expensive enough that you get inefficient commuting vehicles off of them and reserve the capacity to actual efficient use of them . As to cheap housing , yes , it does allow for cheaper housing , but it increases the cost of transport and public infrastructure significantly . What you save on the house , you lose on the cars and public infrastructure you need to build and maintain . And the fact is , a dollar spend on housing mostly stays in the local economy . A dollar spent on transport tends to leave the local economy much faster since big multinational corporations are the ones providing the vehicles and the fuel .