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Originally Posted by alittle1
So in essence, what most people are saying is "no user fees" because is cost too much to impliment and police. So, why pay parking fees, transit fares, building permits, speeding tickets, park-use permits, land title search fees, passport fees, etc. We already paid to develop all these things through taxation of some sort, therefore we should be entitled. In fact, people who pay more tax then others should be allowed to go 5 mph faster (9.2 kmph) faster than people who pay less taxes. People that ride bicycles are more entitled because their carbon footprint is smaller than those that drive autos, and those that drive motorcyles should be just a little less entitled to road and path use than bicyclists.
Should bicyclists be regulated as to speed they should drive at? Can bicyclists pass on either side? Do pedestrians or do bikes have the right-a-way? Should bicycles be forced to have a working STOP light, and working head and tail lights on their bike. Should bikes have "daytime running lights", so that they can be 'seen' better? Is the sidewalks safer than the roads, no one uses them anyways!
Feel free to weigh in on any of these questions......love to hear your answers.
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Lots going on here.... All of those are considerably different than a "user tax": We pay speeding tickets because that is the penalty for breaking a law, we pay for building permits to ensure buildings are properly built, transit it fares because that is the cost to ride... We don't pay a user fee on top of a transit fare, just like we don't pay a user fee to enter a building after it was built. Like I said in my earlier post, and esquire restated, cars don't pay tolls and pedestrians don't pay to use sidewalks so why does it makes sense for bikes to pay bike lanes?
If a cyclist is on a street, don't go faster than the speed limit, on a dedicated lane, same thing, and on the sidewalk only as fast as you can react to a pedestrian.
As for lights, aside from the difficulty of fitting that many lights on a bike, there already is a "stop" light, called a hand signal... Not sure what benefit would be gained from daytime running lights