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In article <Cz29yz.rK@txnews.amd.com>, miker@nucleus.amd.com wrote:

>Road taxes go to upkeep of the roads; if everyone rode bicycles, potholes
>wouldn't appear and the streets wouldn't have to be ripped up and rebuilt
>every ten years or so.

Weather damages roads as well, although traffic does greatly accelerate
the damage.  Roads would still have to be repaired and rebuilt if there
were no cars, just not as often.  And as I pointed out in my previous
article, I *think* that license plate fees also fund new road
construction.

>The consequences of having a wreck on a bicycle are usually quite a bit less
>serious than having an accident in a car or truck.  You are comparing apples
>and oranges here.

But what happens when those apples and oranges are sharing the same
roads?  If an apple has a wreck right in front of an orange and the orange
runs over him, I think that might be rather serious to the apple.  Or what
if an apple who doesn't know the street laws because he hasn't been
required to take any training does something stupid and an orange has to
swerve to miss him, causing him to hit another orange?  Sorry, when we're
all on the same road, we're all in it together.  Everyone should be held
to the same standard of accountability.

                                ++Don Nash

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