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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This says gas taxes and other things like that only fund about a third of the costs of roads.

https://taxfoundation.org/states-road-funding-2019/

So why are we spending so much on destroying the environment?[/quote]

Because roads are an essential part of our transportation network moving goods and people throughout the region.   Without roads there is no civilization.  [/quote]

Some roads, sure.  But we don't need to give you a comfy individual ride to your country club.  Civilization would be fine without that.[/quote]

I know this is going to blow your dogmatic little brain, but cars make people's lives better, in almost too many ways to even count. Why else do you think people bother with the expense? [b]And if riding a bike is so great, why do so incredibly few people do it?[/b] The city has spent billions building all these bike lanes over many years and still hardly anyone uses them (and studies suggest they only appeal to people in a narrow demographic -- namely, young white men). At some point you have to ask why the government is spending so much money on a form of transportation that hardly anyone wants. [/quote]

Because crappy drivers like you threaten our lives if we do bike.[/quote]

Yup.  Absolutely fewer people bike because the infrastructure is poor.  Which is why they advocated for better infrastructure in the form of...bike lanes.

Nobody takes the train the Rehobeth, does that mean that nobody would if there was a train that went there?[/quote]

This isn't about stupid bike lanes.  It's about eliminating two lanes from an essential road that serves 30,000 people a day and is the main connection to the beltway for the northern part of the quadrant.  It's a spectacularly stupid idea for everybody, bicyclists included.
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Maybe we should add a few lanes.  Then we won't have so much traffic.[/quote]

At this point we're gonna have to add lanes to all the side streets instead.

I'd give all the local speed bump proponents a hearty Nelson Muntz for getting played into supporting this but the joke's on all of us.  WABA got their $3 million already (hope yall are at least getting a cut for your trolling).[/quote]

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