When the amount of public subsidy for bicycling infrastructure + human-scaled accessibility exceeds the subsidy for roads over the last 75 years, then we will be at what I consider parity. Unfortunately, congress has been using general tax revenues to keep the highway trust fund afloat over the last few years. Based on my recollection, there was $16bil redirected last year, and they are planning on $21bil next year - so we are still going backwards in terms of parity. This is in addition to the billions out of the stimulus package for roads. And then there is a problem of local roads largely being funding by local taxes. Oh, and then there's the auto-company bailout we could toss into the parity equation.
It is always a mystery to me why the so-called fiscal conservatives don't start their privatization of transportation with roads - it is where the largest immediate impact to the size of government can be made. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Westhagen Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:21 PM To: India Rose Viola; BikiesSubmissions Subject: Re: [Bikies] Bicycle Counts (was Question on bicycle traffic counts) But my only point was the lack of parity of the car tab and the city bike path tab.
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