Like all of you, I'm sure, I run across folks that proclaim "cyclists have no right to the road because they don't pay for them". If where you live is similar to where I live, and I bet it is, then direct fees and taxes on motor vehicles pay for under half of all public expenses related to transportation infrastructure. Of course, cyclists pay plent towards the roads.
Understanding that some regulation is required for six and a half billion of us to share the world, but the "must pay to move about --- but I do pay" argument misses the larger point - how is it possible that "free" citizens would have to pay the government for permission to use the public throughfares to come and go?
TCS