Vance,

What I am suggesting is that bicyclists pay an annual license and registration fee that would be equal to in amount the license and registration fee motorists pay, plus an amount that equals a percentage/proportionate share of what an average motorist pays in gas taxes. The bicyclist would then receive some form of license with large numbers that would be required to be clipped to the handlebars of any bicycle used on public streets. The collection method could be handled in several ways, even through an application on utility bills to keep administrative costs down. The revenue raised could only be used for bicycle infrastructure rather than roads, but only if the gas taxes are no longer used to subsidize bicycle infrastructure and only paid for roads as the gas tax was originally designed to do. The entire issue of taxing bicycles is a matter of tax equity whereby bicyclists pay for the specialized infrastructure they use and want expanded.

As for your comment “Oregon Revised statute says (814.420) that bike-lanes are intended to be mandatory.”

I could be wrong, but I believe this applies to new and rebuilt roads. Left not addressed in the statute is that bicyclists should help pay for those bike lanes.