Comment 96585

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted January 09, 2014 at 13:35:39 in reply to Comment 96368

In the case of Colorado Springs, the proposal came from the cycling community itself. The $4 tax on the purchase of new bikes has been in place since 1988, and no one seems to mind. It only raises up to $150,000 a year, but it’s useful as a local match for federal grants. And it gives cycling advocates leverage when pushing for bike projects. For one thing, it has revealed that 25,000 bikes are sold each year, a big number in a city of 430,000."

As a cycling advocate, I actually wouldn't mind this sort of plan just so I could have something to silence the "cyclists need to pay!" types. Of course, I'd hate to give Sean more paperwork to do, and I'll bet the overhead of running the program practically annihilates the revenue.

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