Comment 101705

By AnjoMan (registered) | Posted May 28, 2014 at 09:29:28 in reply to Comment 101661

Why do we encourage them? and penalize the actual people that pay for the roads and use them legally. Ie licensing and insurance users.

As far as I know, insurance is to pay for damage (to cars and bodily harm) cause by drivers to each-other when they get in accidents...so that doesn't pay for roads. Licensing goes hand in hand with policing, so unless you can show that the proceeds from vehicle registration are greater than both the public expense of policing roadways for driving AND the benefit to policing of having all drivers and their vehicles registered, you can't even say that licensing fees go towards roads. Never mind that in the best case analysis we know that drivers still don't pay for roads.

typical cyclists, they are the least law abiding people using the roads.

Did you ever think that maybe there is a reason why cyclists get away with the things they do? Like maybe because police have realized that it would not meaningfully increase safety, and it would not be worth the money they spent on enforcment?

I would also like to say that as a law-abiding cyclist I take offense to your broad generalizations.

Comment edited by AnjoMan on 2014-05-28 09:29:50

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