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Come on now!  The road taxes pay for the roads we drive on and the maintenance
of these roads.  The reason large trucks pay more road taxes is that this
type of truck weighs so much and does a lot of damage to the roads.  Cars
weigh a lot less and therefore pay a lot less.  How much do you think a bike
and rider weigh?  I just don't see them causing a lot of damage to our
roadways. Pretty soon you are going to want people to pay taxes to walk on
one of these roads.

Bikes have the same rights to the roadways as do automobiles with the exception
of interstate highways where they would be unable to keep up with the minumum
speed limit.  This is the law!  They are supposed to obey the same laws and
should be ticketed when they do not obey these laws.  A responsible rider will
obey these laws.  I just wish responsible drivers would obey the law and treat
a bike rider as another vehicle on the road. 

Let's stop this fight against cyclists.  How much of an inconvenience are they
really?  You may have had to slow down to pass one and wasted a few seconds,
where you met the rest of the traffic at the next light.  Is it really worth
endangering somebody's life by flying past them and missing them by inches
just to save yourself a few seconds?  Just consider if you did happen to hit
one...  You would pay dearly!  And I mean financially!  The lawyers in that
case would be able to retire and you would retire on welfare. 

rickf@hounix.org  

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