You have to explain to me: why do you get so worked up about literally 1.5% of PDOT's budget, which has multiple funding sources, going to bikes, while you have no qualms with the fact that Portland taxpayers are subsidizing out-of-town transportation expenditures far, far more?
Let me be clear- I am not advocating for any change in the current funding system- but if you say that bicyclists are freeloaders, why do you either have no problem with "poachers" from rural parts of the state, or if you do have a problem, why you don't focus on it at all? We are probably talking about something like between 10-30 cents on the dollar (which is a guess, I admit) for sending tax dollars out of Portland, whereas 1.5 cents on each tax dollar goes to bicycle-related stuff...
If "poaching" is really your problem, then why do you focus on the much smaller issue of bicycles and ignore the much bigger "freeloader" that is "out-of-towners?"
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So Terry,
You have to explain to me: why do you get so worked up about literally 1.5% of PDOT's budget, which has multiple funding sources, going to bikes, while you have no qualms with the fact that Portland taxpayers are subsidizing out-of-town transportation expenditures far, far more?
Let me be clear- I am not advocating for any change in the current funding system- but if you say that bicyclists are freeloaders, why do you either have no problem with "poachers" from rural parts of the state, or if you do have a problem, why you don't focus on it at all? We are probably talking about something like between 10-30 cents on the dollar (which is a guess, I admit) for sending tax dollars out of Portland, whereas 1.5 cents on each tax dollar goes to bicycle-related stuff...
If "poaching" is really your problem, then why do you focus on the much smaller issue of bicycles and ignore the much bigger "freeloader" that is "out-of-towners?"