Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I can't help that the government is ridiculously, and may I add, hopelessly corrupt. But I do believe that if cyclists want more paths and lanes then we shouldn't be demanding homeowners who about 95% do not use the paths and lanes to pay taxes for the 5% that do, if we want more and better paths and lanes then that should fall on the shoulders of the cyclists with a one time registration fee of new and used bikes, now if we don't want more lanes and paths and want to use the roads for which we have paid taxes for then fine just don't complain.
95% of all tax payers will never check out that copy of War and Peace at the library. 95% will likely never drive down 43th at Vine, so how can someone who does demand the potholes get fixed? 95% will never need that police officer who patrols the upper 12th ward. 95% of everything you've said here sounds vaguely like logic but simply is not.
Cyclists pay their share. They aren't asking anyone else to anymore than the person who lives on 43rd is asking anyone else to fix their potholes. I know you'll say something silly like "drivers don't all use that road but they use some road". And drivers don't all use that paved pedestrian/cycling surface , but they use some paved surface. Just as they CAN use 43rd street, they CAN use the bike pavement, with an initial investment equal to a tank of gas or two (or a pair of shoes). I don't demand much bike pavement though, just to make it possible to cross busy bridges and highways, and for some multi-mode parkway paths that everyone benefits from.