[Vision2020] Ped/Bike transportation options

[Jeff Harkins]

Joe Joe Joe,

Surely you can do better than this.  Looking for another free ride are you?

At 09:33 AM 6/1/2006, you wrote:
>If my tax dollars can be used to support 
>unsupportable wars, I see no reason why the tax 
>dollars of non-cyclists shouldn't be used to support bike trails.
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>Joe Campbell
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>---- Brent Bradberry <bbradber at moscow.com> wrote:
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>I am a bicyclist of long-standing (now that I've written it,
>"long-standing" seems like a peculiar adjective re: cyclists) and would
>have no objection to a modest tax in support of bike trails. In my
>"youth" I commuted daily between Moscow and Pullman (pre-Chipman trail)
>but now almost 100% of my cycling is recreational. However, if cyclists
>are to be taxed separately for their trails, shouldn't they also be
>exempted from taxes for building and maintaining highways? (Assuming of
>course that they use bike trails exclusively). In other words, when do
>taxes become user fees?
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>Brent Bradberry
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>Dan Carscallen wrote:
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> >Jeff says:
> >"It does seem appropriate that as bicycle use increases (as a substitute
> >for the high cost of driving and commuting) that there is some mechanism
> >for taxing bike riders for their share of developing a trail network -
> >similar to the tax on gasoline is used to build and maintain highways,
> >roads and streets."
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> >I couldn't agree more.  I pay $10 each for off-road stickers that help
> >pay for ORV trails for dirt bikes and ATVs.  A lot of those are
> >shared-use trails (throwing mountain bikes and horses into the mix), but
> >the cost burden of the upkeep is on the shoulders of those who have to
> >buy the off-road stickers -- the dirt bikes and ATVs.
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> >I would gladly toss in $5-10 annually for each bike we ride on the
> >Latah/Chipman/Paradise Path trails to help maintain them, as well as
> >building new connectors.  If it can be done for ORV's, it should be able
> >to work for bikes.
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> >DC
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>--
>Brent Bradberry, Ph. D.
>Professor of Mathematics, emeritus
>Lewis-Clark State College
>Commander, U. S. Navy (retired)
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>1258 Wallen Road
>Moscow, Idaho 83843-7445
>(208) 882-2830
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