Social cost of vehicles

First, there is the cost of building and maintaining roads, bridges and flyovers.
Second, traffic police and traffic lights cost large sums. No driver wants to pay for them. But when a power failure puts traffic lights out of action, traffic jams bring home to drivers their true value.
Third, we suffer hundreds of deaths and disabilities every year from road accidents.
Fourth, we suffer high costs of congestion.
Fifth, cars impose high social costs by occupying parking space
Sixth, vehicles impose high costs through pollution, which leads to respiratory and other disease. Respiratory disease is the number one killer in India. By subsidising petrol and diesel, we subsidise deaths by pollution.
Seventh, vehicular pollution causes smog that makes it impossible for planes to land in Delhi in winter, forcing them to travel to distant airports to dump their disgruntled passengers. This imposes high costs on the passengers, the airlines, and on tourism.

-Swaminomist