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Originally Posted by u crank
I feel sorry for the people in the link who were killed or injured but I have to ask this question: Who has the 'right' to the road? Here and I suspect it is the same in most places, I have to pay to drive on the roads. I have to register my vehicle, get a drivers license, buy insurance, and get my car inspected and repaired yearly. A pedestrian or cyclist gets a free pass.
Until cyclists pay the same as I do, I believe I have the right to the road. That being said I have to watch out for these people and some of them think they are invincible. So please watch out for the people who pay to use the road.
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Sorry, but usually roads are no car-exclusive territory, although some car-maniacs tend to think so. Roads get maintained and payed and payed for by the general tax pool, btw, and taxes on gasoline are not exclusively tied to the purpose of being spend for car infrastructure. What you need to invest into your car's technical reliability, is just this: car reliability and security so that you do not move around in a rolling weapon that can go lose any moment and poses a mobile risk to other people. For the same reason, a bicycle needs to be maintained as well.
We live in a car-crazy world. But crowded city centers do not suffer when putting that insanity up for debate. The traffic jams, stinking emissions, noise and shortages in parking lots do not get caused by bicycles, but too many cars.
