If cyclists want to make use of the roads then they should be made to pay for them like those of us who drive do.
A BIG tax on bikes - liberal elites hit us up with taxes all the time...
Turn about's fair play...
If cyclists want to make use of the roads then they should be made to pay for them like those of us who drive do.
Let me get this straight. You want to raise taxes on "the other guy". You can turn in your "Conservative Card", you obviously are a pro-tax Liberal. Furthermore, it appears that you are an elitist who feels that others should pay for something you freely [ab]use while also denying access to it to those who also pay for it. I notice a complete absence of malice towards people who ride the buses that use that same roadway that actually cost you more in taxes. Where is the hate and contempt for them that you reserve only to bicyclists?
I would also like to correct a glaring error in your statement. Bicyclists do pay taxes for the roads since all surface roads are not paid by gasoline taxes but out of the local government's general funds. That is, the same streets that you drive on, that joggers run on, and that cyclists commute on are paid from general taxes like property, and sales taxes.
The State and Federal gasoline taxes allegedly are earmarked for limited access highways and the interstate - and the law properly criminalizes the use of those roadways by bicyclists.