Another way to analyze it to look at the health costs that cars contribute via their pollution, or, conversely, the health costs bicyclists avoid by not polluting. It's hard to argue that bicyclists don't contribute their share to society--that is, what would our transportation costs look like if all trips of under five miles were taken by bicycle or by public transit? Etc., etc.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Michael Chronister < [email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.ibmadison.com/Blogger/In-Biz/August-2013/Activity-on-the-lakes-a-spectacular-fireworks-show-and-the-Sherman-Avenue-twiddle/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc > > The argument against bikes always seems to be about money. That bikes > don't pay their way. This is just something they tell themselves > because the truth is they do not want to admit that the car culture is > dead and sometimes it is just faster and easier to get around by bike. > Does anyone know how much money the city is missing out on if every > person registered every bike every four years. How many bikes are > there in Madison? 5,000? 10,000? 25,000? 50,000? > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn
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