The point is it should be free. Public roads are free.
Do you think that engineering, asphalt, machinery, and labor are bankrolled by charitable goodwill? Public roads are absolutely not free; you simply haven't thought hard enough about how the public indirectly pays for it.
Sort of? The people using them (driving) pay significant gas taxes, plus parking permits, and other things.
I don't even know what to say to that. No wonder the western civilization is crumbling and being overrun right before our very eyes.