'Shocked' officials learn streetcar might need fraction of normal roads' subsidies

The modest projected annual 'subsidy' to operate the proposed Milwaukee streetcar pales in comparison to the massive, never-unquestioned subsidies for alley, street, road and highway construction, maintenance, plowing, patching, patrolling, replacement and other services.

You never see this kind of a headline on a story about paying for roads:

City may have to to provide annual subsidies for streetcar

And all taxpayers statewide pay a share of these costs for roads, bridges and municipal transit lines they never use.

For example, I have never driven on Appleton's bus line, the Mineral Point bypass, the repaired Leo Frigo bridge into Green Bay, or a single road through Lincoln or Buffalo County.

Big deal. So what. We all live in and benefit from an up-to-date state transportation system..