Originally Posted by Bekologist

it's ironic that in an era of scarce funding that motorized private automobile transport would continue to receive such a great raft of subsidies. seems states should wise up and realize the incredible cost of maintaining public roads is unsustainable. force motorists to pay more for the share of use, and commercial truck use as well..


bikes are not going to wreck pavement like motor vehicle traffic.

it's subsidy after subsidy for the motor vehicle these days. our governments have bent over backwards for private mobility and now we begin to pay the price. maybe the states should put a stop to the gravy train for private automobile use, as radical and unamerican and potentially crippling as it sounds.


pollution, ground water contamination, (biggest polluter of puget sound is the private autombile...) how about that lead exhaust back in the 60's eh?, congestion, sprawl, obesity, lack of personal mobility for the elderly, traffic deaths and wasted time and incredible outlays of public monies to support drives past the abandoned downtown to the walmart and the costco and the dairy freeze.


but boy do we ever have buttloads of high quality exhaust!


sorry, just a little grousing. so tragic that michigan is in such dire straights but now it has to maintain all this roadway infrastructure.

I mean, how long is michigan going to have to maintain the construction fiasco that is the Zilwaukee Bridge? to what purpose?

I know this gets federal funding more so than state highways but exemplary of the huge inflated roads system in michigan and the largess of a perfect ****storm that was the infernal combustion engine.