Cyclists want motorists to pay for their special bike lanes and trails. They are saving the planet, so they feel they are owed a free ride.
Virtually all cyclists also own cars and pay their share of road taxes. The issue is that roads should not by built in such a way that they become barriers to non-motorized movement, whether by pedestrians or cyclists. People should be able to move freely around their own neighborhoods, get across the street, walk to a local park, walk to schools, churches, and neighborhood shopping, etc. without being forced into a car. Sidewalks, wide shoulders, and/or bike lanes should be the standard for a properly designed road of any type.
The car lobby tends to assume that it has some inherent right to use eminent domain to seize other people's property for the purpose of punching commuter sewers though other people's neighborhoods. If motorists want to go nuclear against bike infrastructure, fine. But turnabout is fair play. Let's get rid of eminent domain for roadbuilding. The better approach, however, is to build complete roads that allow people to move freely around their own neighborhoods. That will take care of most of the bike issues.
Yeah, because everyone knows that "motorists" foot the bill for all the other taxes.
I can see you're quite happy to see people levied with oppressive taxation as long as it's not your class of people.
So now taxes on motorists will be reduced, right?
ML/NJ