Brady Brady
I MIGHT actually consider not breaking such laws, should they pass, if there were a "license" system or some sort. i.e., registration covers as many bikes as needed, but each $x (currently x=54) gets you a license, which is what this bozo is really after, anyway. You carry the license (i.d. card, brain implant / NSA tracking chip, whatever) while riding. It lists the bikes registered, etc.
This way you would only pay for the # of bikes that would potentially be in use at once, instead of being penalized just because you have more than one bike.
This would perhaps migrate the proposed bill from the status of "Worst idea ever" to, say, merely "a really, really horrible, Orwellian idea".
-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of Long, Steve
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:14 AM
To: Don Mathews; obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Licensing our bikes?
Trust? Trust this,
Forcing registration fees for bike to help pay for bike lane
maintenance could possibly lead to forcing bikes to ONLY ride in bike
lanes.
Let us not miss the point of back doors. Opps, wait, politicians never
do that do they...
-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Don Mathews
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:10 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Licensing our bikes?
Does anyone here in OBRAland really think we can trust the Oregon
legislature with anymore of our money? Not to mention what this new
fee/paper work will do to getting NEW people involved in this sport?
I propose that OBRA and all other bicycle associations come out and
FIGHT THIS PROPOSAL ALL WE CAN!!! I am going to bury my state rep in
emails! Might be time to start a Facebook Group!
Oregon is one of the most HEAVILY taxed states in the union when you
include user fees! Don't they have enough?
Sincerely,
Don Mathews
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