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The Conference Board of Canada Greatly Overestimates the Degree to which Drivers Cover Road Costs

November 19, 2013 by Bernhard

Recently the Conference Board of Canada released a study that claims that upwards to 90% of Ontario road costs are covered by drivers. The purported findings of the study were gleefully touted by all major news sources, and if one was careless enough to read appending user-comments, one could expect that they were rife with remarks of smug self-satisfaction and entitlement, and perhaps claims of moral superiority in the horrific “war on cars.” I was immediately sceptical of the findings […]

Categories: Economy, Transportation • Tags: cars, Conference Board of Canada, road costs, transportation

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Do Cyclists Pay for Drivers’ Use of Toronto Roads?

March 12, 2013 by Bernhard

The insinuation that cyclists do not pay for roads (with the further implication that motorists are paying for cyclists’ use of roads) is a well-worn refrain from motorists who are unenthusiastic, to say the least, about sharing road space with people on bicycles. The main thrust of the cyclists-are-freeloaders argument stems from the notion that roads are chiefly paid for by revenue schemes that are dependent on the production, sale, and operation of cars. Motorists pay licensing fees, fuel-taxes, and […]

Categories: Economy, Toronto • Tags: Bicycles, cost of roads, cycling, road infrastructure, road subsidies, Toronto, war on bikes, war on cars

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