Urban cyclists, and what to do about them.

[Vendetta21]

Originally Posted by Coolgamer

And why should it be gasoline based? The more independent we are from this crutch the better. Here's a few ideas...

1. Increase Amtrack funding.
2. Promote mag-lev "bullet" train tech for passengers. This obviously works as can be seen from the Japanese business model, and is cleaner and faster then normal trains.
3. Heck, even a inner-city monorail system could help.
4. Switch to either a higher gasoline tax or a flat tax to be shared among all residents, similar to education taxes.

Flat tax doesn't make sense, it just implies a single rate tax. Higher gasoline tax would defeat the purpose of the gasoline tax. If we can't fund our infrastructure with a gasoline tax because of falling tax revenues at the moment, raising the gasoline tax would further decrease demand further decreasing... revenues.

Seriously I talked about all of this back and forth, up and down in my original argument. If you're going to try to argue against me we shouldn't be trying to make the same point.