Scott:
These are tired old arguments, that cyclists don't pay their
share. It's BS. I guess if you live in a city and walk or bike
everywhere, maybe you don't. But the overwhelming majority of us
drive motor vehicles -- to work, to the grocery and drugstores, on
business, to bike club events, to bike tour destinations, and we pay
lots of fuel taxes, state and federal. And, in return, we expect our
roads to safely accommodate all forms of transportation, including
our bicycles.
Think Transportation Builders Association. Why did it change
from road builders? Think about that for a moment. I'm not going to
go into all of the things that were happening at the time. But that
was a paradigm shift from the old days. It's no longer just about
roads, it's about transportation. Why that happened was not because
people have "sources" like blogs but because of economic realities
and the hard work of the bicycle advocates (BFW) who saw the change
coming and acted upon it. It actually dates back to a column I wrote
for Silent Sports, urging an end to the classic bikes vs roads
battles, encouraging a new era of cooperation, and an e-mail I got
back out of the clear blue saying simply, "road builders bicycle,
too." That was the bridge. That's what we acted on. We crossed that
bridge. That's how good things happen, not by continuing to fight
wars long lost in the past.
Sure the Seattle Dem is conflicted. I'm not even going to
attempt to get into all the issues surrounding that proposal.
Bill
At 09:23 AM 2/21/2013, S. Morris Rose wrote:
WA is gearing up to consider a roads-roads-roads transportation bill
and a Seattle dem, chair of the transportation committee has
proposed a $25 tax on new bicycles costing >$500 as part of it. But
she says she doesn't support it herself. I'm not clairvoyant, but I
do have stupid-good sources- I read about it here:
<http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/20/lawmaker-disagrees-with-her-own-bicycle-tax>http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/20/lawmaker-disagrees-with-her-own-bicycle-tax
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Scott M. Rose
West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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