Tell you what: You sonsabitches start paying the taxes I do and obeying the traffic laws...aw hell...just obey the damned traffic laws and I might start thinking your way.
These people crack me up. Locally they’re trying to figure out the best way to scam the taxpayers into paying to repave a bike path. When I grew up, pavement was the least of my worries while riding. We road on the railroad bed, farm trails, grass etc. Hell I still go ride the dirt roads.
Someone suggested that the people who actually use the path should pay for it if they want it paved. This sent the cyclists into fits of worrying that people who don’t pay will use it anyway. Funny thing is that they were worried about non paying riders but don’t have any problem with forcing non riders to pay.
Hell, I live on a dirt street that hasn’t seen a snowplow in decades but I still pay taxes on it. My solution isn’t to throw a fit and ask them to fix it. My solution is for them to stop taxing it and let my neighbor and I divide the property among ourselves.
What makes you think we don't? You think cyclists don't own cars? I have seven bikes in my garage. I also have two cars. I pay every tax you do, and probably more of each; gasoline taxes, property taxes, automobile registration and more. But you apparently believe that only your desires for transportation infrastructure be addressed with those tax dollars.