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Who pays for bike infrastructure?
The city of Austin’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Programs fields questions about how bike infrastructure is funded all the time.
So often, in fact, that they’ve come up with a slide show to explain it.
Check it out Where.Does.the.$.go.ppt">here.
“The short answer is that if you have a job, pay a utility bill and live in Austin (i.e. pay property tax/rent), you are paying for the maintenance and construction of City of Austin roads. Gas taxes and registration fees goes to pay for state controlled roadways and highways; which bicyclists don’t tend to use as often,” says Nadia Barrera, Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator.
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By SAT
November 23, 2009 10:52 AM | Link to this
Pam, The link to the powerpoint appears broken, can you repost. Thx.
By elvis
November 23, 2009 11:29 AM | Link to this
This should be appended to every single article having to do with bicycle infrastructure, but it would probably still fall on deaf ears since willfully ignorant people will just ignore it in their unhinged anti-cycling hatefest rants.
By Brent D.
November 24, 2009 5:47 PM | Link to this
Here’s the link…
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/austin/fitcity/upload/2009/11/Where.Does.the.%24.go.ppt