Well OK it’s not just cyclists but everyone who contributes to the general fund which cyclists are a part. But the point is cars are not paying their own way as often asserted.
>>"One topic of particular interest was the White House’s continued assumption of transfers from the general Treasury to the highway trust fund (HTF) pending enactment of a new long-term federal transportation bill. As the federal gas tax, last raised in 1993, remains static and lawmakers decline to discuss an alternative funding source, the presidential budget document projects that the HTF would need more than $11 billion to make it through the current fiscal year."
https://dc.streetsblog.org/2010/02/01/lahood-talks-budget-very-bright-future-for-infrastructure-fund/oldId.20100201184152411
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