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Article #3284Re: Bikes (was Re: GUN CONTROL)
From: ben Benjamin J. Sloan
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 18:24
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 18:24
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In article <D.Nash-1111941008420001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>, Donald L. Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu> wrote: >Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that some of the money from >license plate fees goes into new road construction. Even if bikers paid >license fees, they would probably have a lot fewer roads to ride on >without the motorists paying to have the new roads built since the >motorists would still pay the lion's share of the fees. 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! Ben -- Benjamin Sloan "...the Oklahoma City police are a bunch of crazed ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu no-neck gestapo who don't know nothing about nothing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and hate anyone who does." -author Bruce Sterling
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f59be,2e27125b926e6893 X-Google-Attributes: gidf59be,public X-Google-Thread: 10b82c,642977eedb6b415e X-Google-Attributes: gid10b82c,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,faf138bd852a6ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-Thread: fd714,44a840f94edd3e03 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd714,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,642977eedb6b415e X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-11 10:36:28 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!!ben From: ben@.uucp (Benjamin J. Sloan) Newsgroups: tx.general,dfw.general,austin.general,tx.guns,tx.politics Subject: Re: Bikes (was Re: GUN CONTROL) Date: 11 Nov 1994 18:24:51 GMT Organization: House of Boiled Muskrats From Space Lines: 21 Distribution: tx Message-ID: <3a0ctj$7ig@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <39r0m3$h1k@oak.zilker.net> <D.Nash-0911941817290001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> <Cz2rws.H8t@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> <D.Nash-1111941008420001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> Reply-To: ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: utig.ig.utexas.edu