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Benjamin J. Sloan (ben@.uucp) wrote:
: 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!

And just how much gasoline tax was collected from those bicycles?
None, you say?  Then it seems quite a stretch to try to claim that
money should be spent for the benefit of a minority.

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