by Jose Dec 22, 2005 at 07:47 PM


Bike lanes are most assuredly subsidized. There are no tolls on bicycle
lanes, there are no "user fees" for bikes, and people can ride on them
free even if they were specially constructed for bicycles. The concrete
doesn't come for nothing - guess who is paying

Jose: Here's the scoop on subsidies. True that the recently passed
TEA-21 had some capital funding for bike lanes and other forms of pork.

If you want to check out the various forms of federal tax subsidies by
mode of transportation, this link has some of the raw data. Note that
highways are actually NEGATIVELY subsidized (i.e. federal gasoline taxes
provide more revenues than federal highway funding).

Heaviest subsidies are for aviation as well as public transportation
systems and AMTRAK.

http://www.bts.gov/programs/federal_...portation.html