Dollar-a-Pound
 

A debate in another forum sparked an idea. Hypothetically, if I had to, I really wouldn't mind paying a dollar-a-pound to register my bikes......as long as the annual registration fee for all street legal vehicles was the same, dollar-a-pound. That would be fair. :lol:

Dollar a pound? With the current conversion rates, you've just stumbled on a way to make some really quick cash... :D

Learn how and why your tax dollars work for road use. In every area of the US I've been to, the largest part of registration fees is a luxury tax and has nothing to do with road use. The actual registration fee ($25 here) covers the admin fees. Fuel tax pays for freeways which bicycles are not allowed on. Surface roads are paid for by local taxes and sales taxes. This means everyone has an equal right to use the road based on taxes paid.

I think that a air quality tax based on fuel consumption and weight of vehicles would probably be a good idea and get people thinking about why they're buying vehicles that they generally don't need and sometimes can barely afford.

Az

Last year I paid $179.00 to register my minivan, this year I paid $279.00. It went up a hundred dollars.
If it goes up another hundred dollars, then it will be close to ten cents ($0.10) a pound.

So how about ten cents a pound? You pay two dollars to register your Italian road bike, and I pay ten dollars to register my velomobile.

Fair enough?

Well said! +1 !!!

Sadly, it's very hard to convince motorists of this, most of them really do think they 'own the road', and the cognitive dissonance is a little too great for many of them to easily overcome. Good advocacy would be to get a respected / elected official to say this loud and clear to the local population wherever you live.

Yes, I am aware of that. The dollar-a-pound idea was sparked when someone else voiced the opinion that bicycles should be registered at $20 a year for road use. Hmm, $20 + 20 lb. bike = dollar-a-pound. Cool, wow, the annual fee for a large SUV would be up there. :)