As milvus says, the government are the bad guys here. There was a report yesterday that said they made 30 billion from motorists and and 17 billion of that was spent on god knows what. And if you look around most of the roads have pot holes, I'm sure 17 bn would go a long way to repair at least some of the roads.
And jno, your answer of " stop driving" is just silly you obviously don't live in the real world where most people need to drive in order to work