Originally Posted by
surfimp
You're
soooo right, driving has way more attractive incentives: does nothing to reduce the risk of heart disease, continues our excessive dependence on fossil fuels / foreign oil, pollutes the natural environment, and serves to keep us on our unsustainable forward march.
Clearly, a much more appealing and better alternative than riding a silly bicycle...
You missed the point. The incentives to bike commute before this passed were already well known and do not need to be reiterated. The additional financial incentive that this provides is meaningless. Because it is attached to this bad piece of legislation, we were better off without it.
In other words, this bill didn't give us anything we didn't already have. The people that commuted by bike before, will continue to commute by bike. The people that didn't bike commute are not going to jump off the couch, go dig the bike out of the back of the garage, air up the tires and suddenly start riding because of this. It's worthless, except getting us one step closer to being a Socialist nation. For that reason alone the Liberals should love it.