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The thing that gets me (as a cyclist) is that I commute almost entirely on local roads that are largely paid with my property taxes. Yet the people that seem t
by Johnny555 9y ago
The thing that gets me (as a cyclist) is that I commute almost entirely on local roads that are largely paid with my property taxes.
Yet the people that seem to complain most about bikes on the road are commuting from 2 counties away and very little of their tax money goes to paying the roads that I'm commuting on. And they act as if that me riding in that tiny 3 foot wide painted strip on the road is caused them to have an hour long commute in stop and go traffic from 30+ miles away.
- rconti 9y agoroars by cyclist after 2 seconds' wait, races up to traffic ahead, slams on brakes, gets passed by cyclist at the stop sign 30 seconds later
- justinator 9y agoI'm going to take a guess (and if I'm wrong, I apologize), that you also own a car, which would have a tax on the gas it consumes. Thus, you may in fact be contributing to the gas tax, while also riding a bike and having people think you're a freeloader (while also getting to work, paying Federal taxes that contribute to the loans that subsidize the actual construction of the road ways ,etc). I don't own a car, but as the article I linked points out, more than 50% of commuters would need to ride a bike for their commute, before car drivers subsidize the cost of roads for cyclists. It would be then that I would be interested in talks about cyclists contributing extra to the costs of infrastructure through some sort of... tax - that infrastructure would also look amazingly different. One can dream :)
- Johnny555 9y agoWell, yes and no - my family owns a car, but my wife drives it most days. We got rid of our second car when we moved within easy bike commuting distance of my job.