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> government was subsidizing your car-centric lifestyle Huh. In my closest city, the parking is expensive and the local government taxes the shit out of it.

• stefs 5y ago
  on the other hand, road maintenance is also quite expensive, which wouldn't be an issue if there were no - or at least far fewer - cars. parking spots are lost to all usage except for parking; it costs me 100€ per year. on the other hand i pay taxes for road maintenance, which is partially financed by taxes on fuel. people often mention that bicycle paths need maintenance too, which leads to the fourth power rule: "What these researchers found is that damage to the roadbed is proportional to the 4th power of the axle load of the vehicle, and they called this “the Generalized Fourth Power Law.” This means that if you double the weight on an axle, your vehicle does sixteen times the damage to the road. ... You saw that, right? A tractor trailer causes roughly 6500 times more road damage than a Prius. ... We see the Prius does 38,000 times more road damage than a bicycle." see https://camdencyclists.org.uk/2020/06/the-fourth-power-rule-cyclelicious/ https://camdencyclists.org.uk/2020/06/the-fourth-power-rule-...