🚀 go-pugleaf

In <D.Nash-1111940958320001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) writes:


[snip]

>No it isn't ridiculous.  You pay a specific tax on your car (the license
>plate), which goes to road creation and upkeep.  That's the whole notion
>behind license plates, to make the road users pay for the roads they use. 
>Bike owners do not pay this tax but they get to use the roads anyway. 
>Property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, etc. that bike owners do pay
>aren't dedicated specifically to road creation and upkeep.

Nevertheless, road wear caused by bikes is negligable compared to that of
cars.  That bikers do not pay for the upkeep of roads is so trivial as to
be irrelevant.  The idea of a "bike licence" to support bike trails is 
perhaps tenable.


>Try driving in the UT area during rush hour.  The lanes are narrow and
>there are a lot of bicyclists because of all the students at UT.  They do
>get in the way around here.  It is a different story out on the open
>highway where there is usually a paved shoulder for the bikers to ride on
>out of the way of the cars.

You have it backwards.  It's the *cars* that get in the way of the *bikes*.

>Please stick to the topic.  Bikes may be environmentally friendly and
>healthful, but this has nothing to do with the topic being discussed. 
>Someone asserted that bikers have the same rights and responsibilities as
>drivers and I have challenged that assertion.  The environmental
>friendliness and healthfulness of bikes has nothing to do with this.

Indeed?  Only one blinded by a false notion of automotive supremacy would 
insist upon such a narrow interpretation.  Bikers have (or should have) 
equal rights/responsibilities in part becuase of the inherent ecological
-- 
**** Mike Sluyter ****       *------------------------------------------------*
char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main() |         "You can observe a lot by just         |
{printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c";  |            watching." -- Yogi Berra            |
main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}*------------------------------------------------*