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- From: duanej@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Duane Jacobson)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:08:37 GMT
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- >/ hpfcso:sci.energy / jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) / 8:47 am Jan 19, 1993 /
- >
- >b) Speaking of fair, you wouldn't be one of those who bellows like a
- >cut bull everytime it is proposed to tax bicycles so that they pay
- >their share of road taxes, would you? If you are not, you are a minority
-
- And why shouldn't bicyclists bellow? Do you know of any city where there
- is a comprehensive bicycle transportation system? I've never seen one.
- Only random networks of unconnected bike lanes that may or may not go
- anywhere useful. It can be downright dangerous to get anywhere on a bike.
- Snow is not usually cleared from these lanes in the winter, and in the summer
- they are littered with gravel, branches, glass, and dead animals.
-
- If motorists had to deal with similar conditions, we'd really hear some
- bitching.
-
- Gas taxes don't come close to paying for the costs of building and maintaining
- highways. The portion of my sales and income taxes that goes for highways
- certainly pays for the snow-covered strip of asphalt and gravel that I
- ride my bike on, probably hundreds of times over.
-