“They don’t sit a driver’s license, they don’t have to register their vehicles, they don’t have to keep their vehicles roadworthy, they don’t pay road taxes, and they don’t have to carry insurance. Yet they get identical rights on the roads that others have paid for as motor vehicles.”
We don’t require the services of cars and trucks. We don’t tear up the pavement like trucks. We don’t cause the same damages as cars and trucks.
If the taxes and fees paid equates to rights, then shouldn’t the guys who truck M1 battle tanks on our Interstates be able to abuse car drivers? Would semi drivers be calling for Mini drivers to be taken off of the road, or worse, killed? I mean, the average pickup doesn’t pay $50k a year in road taxes, or the hefty insurance fees, etc... should pickup trucks be relegated to special trails that go nowhere close to something they’d like to drive to, or forced onto the sidewalks?
> We don’t require the services of cars and trucks.
You require roads. And you require road rules and traffic signals (but most of you pay not a blind bit of notice to either).
> We don’t tear up the pavement like trucks. We don’t cause the same damages as cars and trucks.
So why should that absolve cyclists from being licensed? And paying road taxes just like everyone else? And observing the Road Rules?
Why should cyclists get to use for free something that someone else has paid for?
> If the taxes and fees paid equates to rights, then shouldn’t the guys who truck M1 battle tanks on our Interstates be able to abuse car drivers?
The cars and trucks have all paid their fair share and are not free-loading.
No, you just jam up trafic and piss off people in steel cars with your self-righteous attitudes.
Small piece of advice: Don't go up against the laws of physics; you'll lose, badly.
Speaking of sidewalks and rules of the road, did you know that as a vehicle, you're supposed to stop at red lights, even when turning right?
Same for stop signs.
Do you obey these traffic laws, or are you like all of the riders I see who think red lights and stop signs are only for *real* vehicles?