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   sindark Posted 5:46 am
   19 Oct 2007

   Road use feebateIf they start taxing road use by the kilometre, perhaps they can start paying people to cycle. It could be justified in terms of congestion, air pollution, emissions, and cardiac health (North America's biggest killer). They could do it on a voluntary basis using GPS devices and cameras for verification.
   It would be like the net metering of electrical power.
   
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   claxton6 Posted 6:54 am
   19 Oct 2007

   all well & goodBut ... I think I'm missing the part where some of this winds up in the hands of the local governments that build bikeways. I guess you could say that freeing up money from road work can go toward it, but if the money for that roadwork comes from gas taxes, that may not happen.

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   Biodiversivist Posted 12:31 pm
   19 Oct 2007

   Every time I leave the Seattle bubbleand take my car into the burbs I get depressed. If you don't live in a city, biking is futile-- rivers of cars stretching out over the horizon in all directions, just warped.
   
   In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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