Yeah but thats not the total cost is it ?They kill 30 a day from transport pollution, vehicular homicide is thousands a year, several more thousand are hospitalised. They health coat alone are enormous and they get away with that for “free”, where as walking leads to lpwer heathcare costa, lower ,.lower raod debays, lower pollution death and better mental health outcomes.
If you own a car and cycle you’re not getting a reduction, so many cyclists have opportunity costs of insurance and rego for a vehicle they don’t use as much.
Car Infrastructure costs are more then rego and fuel excise, ao while they pay aomethig they are still subsidised…
Then we have the whole climate change thing, a tonne of emissions coats about $1200 to remove, that’s not costed in. The enviormental damge from urban sprawl enabaled by cars isnt costed in, whats the habitiat of a Quoll worth exactly ?
And 100 other costs car drivers dont pay, like tyre and brake dust destroying marine and riparian environments.
We should be paying people to cycle and making car travel near impossible outside of edge cases.
Yeah but thats not the total cost is it ?They kill 30 a day from transport pollution, vehicular homicide is thousands a year, several more thousand are hospitalised. They health coat alone are enormous and they get away with that for “free”, where as walking leads to lpwer heathcare costa, lower ,.lower raod debays, lower pollution death and better mental health outcomes.
If you own a car and cycle you’re not getting a reduction, so many cyclists have opportunity costs of insurance and rego for a vehicle they don’t use as much.
Car Infrastructure costs are more then rego and fuel excise, ao while they pay aomethig they are still subsidised…
Then we have the whole climate change thing, a tonne of emissions coats about $1200 to remove, that’s not costed in. The enviormental damge from urban sprawl enabaled by cars isnt costed in, whats the habitiat of a Quoll worth exactly ?
And 100 other costs car drivers dont pay, like tyre and brake dust destroying marine and riparian environments.
We should be paying people to cycle and making car travel near impossible outside of edge cases.