Invest in safe bicycling

Bicycle tires are an insignificantly-small contributor to pollution when compared with car tires. Bike tires are much smaller, bikes have two wheels instead of four, and vehicle weight is a major contributor to the amount of tire pollution shed. (Unfortunately, EVs with heavy battery packs are pretty bad in that regard -- especially with the shift to big SUVs in general -- even though EVs need to be one part of the transit shift to decarbonize).

Property owning bicyclists pay property taxes in San Mateo. Renters pay property taxes indirectly (property taxes increase rent). So they are funding the city. We pay income taxes too, funding the state. For costs, bicycles create far less road wear than cars, and require far less road space, with far lower negative externalities (serious injuries and deaths, carbon footprint, space use, etc). So bicyclists are paying more than their fair share.

Humans roamed earth for 400000 per ship, walking or riding.

Then came the car industry and its politicians and took over all human space without paying their fair share.

People centric infrastructure is not about requiring dedicated infrastructure for people. It's about taking back infrastructure that was stolen from the people by the automotive and fossil fuel industry to make them rich and people unhealthy and obese.

Imagine that ... there are people out there ... all they do is driving 10 grocery bags around all day long, meanwhile forgetting the skill of 400,000 years of how we survived without cars.

Make Amerika Strong and Healthy again - ride a bike.

btw the energy to produce one bicycle equals the energy of driving a family of 4 and treating them to a nice steak dinner.

For an ebike make that two steak dinners.

After that the ebike or escooters are regarded as the ONLY real zero-emission vehicles.

Two for one…

Thanks for your response, rballard. It should be noted that property owning car owners pay property taxes, renters owning cars pay property taxes indirectly (property taxes increase rent), and car owners pay income taxes too so they “cancel” each other out. However, car owners are also paying vehicle registration fees and gas taxes, whereas bicyclists get a free ride. Doesn’t sound like bicyclists are paying their fair share.

eGerd – TBot here. Unless, of course, you need to lug home 10 bags of groceries or a case of bottle water. And how can you consider e-anything of being a “real” zero-emission vehicle? I guess if you ignore the emissions emitted from mining the raw materials used for manufacturing bicycles and batteries and the emissions generated from the fossil-fuel powered generating plant to power e-bikes. If you ignore those, I’ll ignore your zero-emission claim. Question…if someone recently consumed beans or cabbage or bran or dairy (or pick your own), they’re also guilty of emitting carbon, aren't they? And with those staples and 8 billion people world-wide… People far outnumber cows, don't they? That reminds me, steak for dinner.