The Economics of Bike Lanes

Post by mikeklaas » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 12:35 AM UTC

goodweeds wrote: post #198

bryanlarsen wrote: post #194

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If you're a taxpayer and a cyclist, you're already paying way more than your fair share -- most infrastructure is paid for via property & income taxes.

Well I'm a small business owner, so my accountant does everything in her power to minimize my income taxes, and I live in San Francisco, so I will never be able afford to own property or pay property taxes, so I'm probably not paying my fair share.

Post by dasil003 » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #75

dasil003 wrote: post #35

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I agree that bike lanes have safety problems, but let's not take it out on delivery drivers. Have you ever driven a delivery truck? Quite often there is not physical possibility of legal parking. At some point lanes are going to be blocked, and not just the bike line. The best we can hope for is enough courtesy not to entirely block the street.

So the OP is ranting about cyclists running stop signs, but now we've decided it's OK for a delivery truck to block an entire street? This is what annoys me most about drivers of cars: they are quick to criticize cyclists, but are very slow to criticize their own actions.