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In article <1994Nov13.170318.20001@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Fred McCall) writes:
> Benjamin J. Sloan (ben@.uucp) wrote:
> : The federal highway dollars being spent right now, out of your income
> : tax, to build 183 and Ben White elevated freeways could probably
> : maintain Austin streets for "bicyclists only" for a century.  When 
> : you add in the savings in health costs due to a healthier population,
> : lack of car accidents (our no 1 killer), a cleaner environment, and
> : foreign oil independence, we could pave the roads with gold!
> 
> And just how much gasoline tax was collected from those bicycles?
> None, you say?  Then it seems quite a stretch to try to claim that
> money should be spent for the benefit of a minority.

	You seem confused here, Fred.  If we went "bicyclists only", the
existing streets would be just fine.  No money would need to be spent on
183, the Ben White elevated freeway and numerous other street projects, much
less "be spent for the benefit of a minority".

	Almost no money is spent to the benefit of the minority as it stands
now (183 and BW isn't being funded to the cyclists benefit, that's for
certain).

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