What country are you talking about? In the USA, the roads are public property. The government doesn't own them. By law, the government has to maintain rights of way for the people. You are talking reasonable moral and ethical talk, but it is not legal talk.
We don't know for sure that road payments are not used for something other than the roads. Road money might all be borrowed money, with a tiny bit of the license fees simply going to make payments, and the rest being used for who-knows-what.
When government makes road rules, exactly who makes the rules? People! Drivers are people. Nobody forces people to drive safely. People just do it. Rules simply make it easier for people to be safe drivers.
It's like this. Government is required to make rights-of-way for people to use to cross the land. Government is also required to not steal my property. If they want to make highways of concrete and steel on the rights of way, that's their business. They don't have any right to steal my money just so I can use the rights of way they have messed up with their concrete and steel.
If government people can't find a legal way to get money for government to build their roads without stealing from me, they should resign.
lets word it like this..
citizens, public. imagine them like a special members club
not all humans are invited inside this special club unless they are ancestord in by birth or have a 'green card'
just look at mexican illegal migrants. do they get to vote in this special club... no
This is all great and stuff, and if you want to do it this way, you will wind up with the results that it brings you.
But beneath all this is the common law. Amendments 6, 7 and 9 show that people - actual flesh and blood humans - can take accusations against them to their local jury that doesn't have a judge/magistrate doing any part of the judging. It's called common law court of record. This is upheld by CJS, Federal Courts, Section 744.
If a smart Mexican came up over the border illegally, and he was caught, he could require a jury trial, and stand as a man in that trial. If he wrote up a claim against anybody in general, and filed it into the complaint against him, he could require government to get on the stand, and show the damage he caused, so he could pay it off. The government can't get on the stand. The government isn't a man. Government doesn't show, case dismissed.
Doing it this way places him outside everything that you talk about. In the things you talk about, the courts
always have representation for/of the parties. It might be by attorney representation, or it might be pro se, or it might be propria persona, or it might somehow even be sui juris. They do this because representation means that the actual party being accused isn't standing in the court personally. His representation by someone else means that the whole thing falls into and under complaints... even if he makes a claim through representation.
If a man stands present, not represented by anyone, and not representing anyone, and files a claim into their complaint case, his clam must be heard and cleared up before they can continue with the rest of the case. And since he is a man standing present in court, he has the right to have his accuser come forward on the stand, show the damage he was damage with, and prove that the accused did it.
In the case of the illegal Mexican, his accuser is invariably THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It says so on the indictment. So, let Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA take the oath/affirmation, get on the stand and prove how they were harmed by him. Government can't do it. Nobody shows up after 3 calls... case dismissed.
This only works if the guy stands as a man. It works because it is written right into basic law. And I am not saying that even if he is smart and shrewd, that he wouldn't need some help... some council-friend who has who has limited power of attorney for him, to put some paperwork into the courts for him, while he is incarcerated. He would have to be very clever to do it all right in court, writing up his claim on the spot, and submitting it to the judge right in court.
All this is foundational law in the USA.