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In article <D.Nash-1511941309020001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>, D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) wrote:
> It should only be a small incremental cost to collect the registration
> fees, since everything is already in place to do this with the current
> registration facilities that handle cars, trucks, and motorcycles.  For

You really believe that registering every bicycle in Texas wouldn't add to the overhead of the system?  You have to remember here that many people under the age of 18 use bicycles as their SOLE means of transportation.  That's a large group of people who would have to come up with registration fees,  licensing fees, etc...
Plus by enacting such a law you immediately criminalize anyone not obeying which increases the load on the police!  You are asking to increase the role of governmental regulation in our lives.  Anytime you involve the government it costs more in the long run.

> Since almost all
> bikers are also drivers, the net increase in the load at DPS would be

Again,  I submit that MOST bikers are under age 25,  and in fact younger,  and might not be drivers.  You can't limit this debate to adult drivers.  Would you like to tell your children they can't ride their bikes down to the corner store unless they have a license, registration, etc... What's next Liability insurance?


> negligible.  As for vehicle safety inspections, well, that doesn't seem
> necessary because there isn't nearly as much to go wrong with a bike as

I think the key here is liability.  A bike with faulty brakes will likely only hurt the rider not the things it runs into.  So I agree here.

> I didn't say it would.  I said it would hold bikers to the same

No you didn't say it would.  Just reiterating the point that while your visions might make bikes SEEM more respectable,  it wouldn't change anything.


> *Some* car drivers would still be obnoxious.  Please don't make
> stereotypes.  Keep in mind that *some* drivers are polite, just as *some*
> bikers are obnoxious.
> 

I didn't mean to generalize to all,  I happen to fall into the group of curteous driver and biker.

>                                 ++Don Nash
> 
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