Actually, this article makes the exact opposite point: Eliminate Federal funding for most of the infrastructure in those cities.
You misread.
A per-mile use fee applies exclusively to rural, fly-over drivers.
Those who can, and choose to avail themselves of “public transportation” won’t be paying any increased costs. Being “public” those costs will be passed on to the tax base one way or another; either through increased use fees for everyone else, or by looting the public treasury.
This is agenda 21.