There is no specific reason why transport should be funded by transport revenues alone.But easy opportunities to tax—and thereby reduce—undesirable things are rare.

To boot, my support, which means nothing, won’t even eat up tax dollars, since the commission, if approved, would be funded with grants, gifts and donations.

At the moment highways are funded by a motor-fuels (ie, petrol) tax of 20 cents a gallon; a federal motor-fuels tax; and vehicle registration fees.