30.00% - One Hummer does the same road damage as 364,520 bike trips — taxing bikes to fund road repairs they didn't cause is indefensible.
27.50% - Subsidize bike infrastructure and get more people out of cars — the road math works heavily in bikes' favor.
22.50% - The pandemic exposed how underfunded public schools are — they couldn't get ventilation upgrades, substitute teachers, or rapid tests; that's a resource allocation failure.
20.00% - Axle weight raised to the fourth power determines road damage — bikes are functionally weightless in that calculation.
Bicycles cause essentially no measurable road wear.
50.00% - Subsidize bike infrastructure and get more people out of cars — the road math works heavily in bikes' favor.
25.00% - Every car trip replaced by a bike trip saves money on road maintenance — bikes cause negligible road wear.
25.00% - The pandemic exposed how underfunded public schools are — they couldn't get ventilation upgrades, substitute teachers, or rapid tests; that's a resource allocation failure.
50.00% - Bicycles cause essentially no measurable road wear.
50.00% - Cyclists should not be taxed for road wear they do not cause.
0.00% - Bikes cause essentially zero road wear.
50.00% - Fox hunting