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Reference: https://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/if-you-build-it/Content?oid=11043200
B’ Spokes: There appears to be some disagreement here on just how much motorist pay for the roads. So I’ll note from my research there is a big difference what the proportion of motor vehicle taxes make up the state DOT budget and that of the localities. State DOT’s build a lot of expensive roads where cyclists are prohibited (so it stands to reason motor vehicles pay the lion share of that) while localities using less vehicle taxes build roads for everyone to use. So it looks like the inference holds, we are paying more then our fair share.
A few highlights:
"And a 2013 study by Canadian researcher Todd Litman found big disparities in how motorists and non-motorists kick in for transportation projects. Litman estimated a cyclist who travels 3,000 miles a year likely overpays almost the same amount as a motorist who logs 10,000 miles a year might underpay."
"But some observers say parsing these revenue streams ignores a larger point: Bike facilities have the ability to save massive amounts of money."
"A Swiss researcher, Thomas Gotschi, who helpfully made Portland the subject of a 2011 study, drove that point home. He found investments of $138 million to $605 million in bike infrastructure could be leveraged to save:
• Between $388 million to $544 million in health care costs.
• $143 to $218 million in fuel
• $7 to $12 billion in human life (measured “value of statistical lives,” a common metric in transportation planning)"
https://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/if-you-build-it/Content?oid=11043200

[B’ Spokes: This video is just like here but we have a higher pedestrian fatality rate than New York City. When you realize this is normal behavior at a lot of our intersections it is safer for pedestrIans to cross mid block. But our police repeatedly crack down on jaywalking (which is not illegal) but have never engaged in crosswalk stings which helps get better motorists behavior. That is not right only addressing one side of the problem.]

65th and 7th Ave, Brooklyn, #VisionZero from Anna Zivarts on Vimeo.

[B’ Spokes: Too many supporting more single occupancy motor vehicles (cars) have arguments that boil down to denying climate change and the hopes that the U.S. has enough untapped oil and gas to go on the way it has for another 350 years.

Trying to refute that is not my main argument, this is:]

From the Daily Mail

The headline from: https://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=9137&cat=Local%20News
B’ Spokes: Just to note that Tucson has 900 miles of bike lanes. Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe all have grade separated trails (no roads to cross.)

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Just for Maryland it is one life every 18 hours.