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The shocking thing is that we property owners subsidize roads to such an extent, when the amount of wear and tear from non-bikes is about 100,000:1 on road surfaces.

Which means our taxes go up every time we build more car-only roads.
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I love that argument, it has one important hole in it. Lets say you have a 4 lane road, two lanes are dedicated for cars (one in each direction) and two for bikes (again, one in each direction). 20 years later, the road needs to be re-paved and while the bike lanes are fine, do you honestly think WSDOT workers will tear up and re-pave just the car lanes? Probably not, they'll have to re-pave the whole thing, in fact cyclists might be upset if you didnt provide just as smooth a ride for them as they would do for cars. If its a bike lane that only bikes use, then I'll buy that argument because you wont need to re-pave it for decades and thats the only way that argument works.

Scooters dont cause anywhere near the damage that a car does, but we expect them to jump through the same registration hoops that cars do. Its only a matter of time before cyclists have to deal with the same annoyances drivers do.
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You're funny. Your argument admits that bikes don't do any damage to the road, dumbass. If the cars and trucks didn't damage the road, then those bike lanes wouldn't be replaced.

They also redo the sidewalks when upgrading roads. Time to register sneakers?

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@3 Worst argument ever. Let's just throw a huge number out there...say 50% of road users out there are cyclists the roads will last 2x as long and not need replaced as often therefore saving tons of money, freeing up resources for roads that actually need repair instead of just the arteries.
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Wait. I thought the bike activists wanted to get rid of helmet laws. But now they favor bike safety? Which is it?
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@3 STEP AWAY FROM MY TAX DOLLARS YOU CAR-OBSESSED LEACH!

There, that's your answer, in Tea Party language you can understand, welfare-car-person.
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Every ghost bike I see brings a chuckle and a warm glow.

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