You should travel to The Netherlands or Japan, it would definitely be a wonderful experience for you and your family. 🙂

I ride push bikes and im insured, i dont pay road tax as you call it just like all the EV drivers and the ICE cars in the past which were exempt, my wifes ICE car is exempt, pushing your narrative against only cyclist!!!!!!!!, do you go up to EV drivers and ICE car drivers and spout off to them they should pay it, i guess not, its not the fault of cyclist, Ev and ICE drivers fault they don't pay it it's the government, so instead of making some ill conceived comment you might use one of your 2 brain cells to think logically

That's ridiculous and you know it (or perhaps don't which is okay). Everyone pays tax that goes towards roads already. If you knew just how much damage cars do, then you'd realize that drivers are the ones who aren't paying nearly enough. Cyclists shouldn't pay insurance because there's nothing to really insure. A cyclist can't really do any damage. Cyclists shouldn't have to wear safety gear because cycling isn't actually that dangerous. It's the 4,000+ pound cars that are dangerous to cyclists, which is why they should be separated from car traffic as much as possible. They are incompatible. I don't know what good a license plate would do for a bicycle. Bicycles are not basically a motorcycle, that's ridiculous. There is no motor and anyone of any age can ride one. I do think that some cyclists should be more aware of their surroundings and more courteous, same goes for drivers. It is not safe to weave between traffic or make unpredictable movements. Most people are terrible drivers and shouldn't be trusted to do anything properly, so don't assume they can see you or know what you're going to do without being obvious. However, bikes are lighter, slower, and have fewer blind spots, so cyclists should be more aware and have more time to react than a person in a car. This is why they don't need to stop at stop signs/lights and can break motor vehicle rules. Things like stop lights only exist because of cars, people on bicycles are fairly safe without any traffic signals. See the Netherlands for examples of all of this.

1) Cyclists already pay their share when it comes to funding roads, that's called the tax system. In fact cyclists actually subsidize drivers. Drivers don't actually pay for all the infrastructure that they need. Very little of car expenses actually go into the roads. General taxes are what fund roads not gas taxes. NotJustBikes has a quote where he says "You want cyclists to pay their fair share? Okay, start calculating their refund checks." Cyclists save cities lots of money by not wearing down the roads, reducing congestion, improving air quality and noise levels; and these tax savings mean lower taxes for everyone, including you. 2) There is a reason that bicycle licensing isn't a thing, it makes no sense to implement it. Cities have tried this in the past, it went away for a reason. The cost of building and maintaining a database of bicycles just would not be financially worth doing for the almost nonexistent amount of danger that cyclists pose on others. Our pockets are finite, we cannot just slap bureaucracy onto everything and call it a day. Paperwork and databases cost money to maintain and people on bicycles pose virtually no threat to other people so it makes zero sense to license and register bicycles. 3) Cyclists shouldn't have to follow the roads as strictly as motorists do because again, cyclist pose almost no threat to anyone else but themselves, so a cyclist running a red light is only likely to get themselves hurt not anyone else. The amount of energy a 200 lbs person on a 20 lbs bicycle travelling 15 mph possesses is significantly less than someone in a 4,000 lbs motor vehicle travelling 35 mph. Also bicycles are hard to get moving from a stop, so allowing cyclists to keep rolling when it is safe to proceed saves time for drivers too. Also one bicycle on the road is one less car on the road and people just LOVE to complain about traffic. You are not stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic. Allowing cyclists to roll through stop signs when it is safe to do so not only saves time for drivers but it is actually safer for the person on a bike too as they can spend less time in an intersection. 4) Bicycles are absolutely NOT motorcycles, nowhere close actually. Ebikes, maybe; but manual bicycles are more fast pedestrian than motorcycle. As long as a cyclist is riding responsibly then who cares if they break a few written rules, so long as they're not being a nuisance to others, in fact someone using a bicycle for transportation is saving you as a driver time cuz they removed one car's worth of traffic from the roads. Same goes for ebike riders. With power comes responsibility. As long as someone on an ebike is riding responsibly then who cares if they break a few small rules? These micro-mobility devices are doing a good job reducing traffic which is something that drivers love to complain about. Someone on a bicycle poses virtually no threat to anyone.

@@MichaelSheaAudio Most taxes come from the sale of mineral oil products or electricity. Therefore cyclists contribute very little to the infrastructure. Cyclists use food as fuel, so maybe the taxes have to be raised to 100% of something to compensate :). Or just have a mandatory license plate that has to be paid for.

Yes it is 🙂

Yeah, I bet it was definitely the cyclist that caused the traffic jam and not the volume of the cars. 🙂

@@urbandenizenmobility The traffic jam was only behind the bike after the bike completely clear on the same road. So yes it was all because of 1 bike.

Of course it is. 😉

@@pantsgaming759 imagine giving the biker the fault for the bad infrastructure 🤣

@@Karonar well fuel tax pays for road maintenance so maybe if bikes paid for there own paths then they wouldnt have everyone hating them for valid reasons

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@@MrMinecraftLestFail I say just Michael e Mann Hockey stick fraud!

Actually, I do have one. You should get a bike, it’s not that bad. 🙂

The H-Bomb has never killed anyone, thus, everyone should be able to have it.

Who said anything about banning anything?

A perfectly reasonable point. However, it is worth noting that the transport sector accounts for 13% of the Philippines' greenhouse gas emissions and is the most significant source of urban pollution. Motor vehicles emit total heat, which is trapped in metropolitan areas without ventilation, decreasing the thermal comfort of the environment. Cities may minimize heat emissions from human activity by lowering vehicular traffic or by switching to alternative modes such as EV's or active transport.

Definitely! Thank you for pointing that out.

sweat is weakness leaving your body. building a strong rider 💪 haha

@@mylan3707 not when you commuting to work

That's why you change clothing at work.

Excellent point! Sweating can help to cleanse the body of alcohol, cholesterol, and salt. Toxins are released from the body via sweat. Toxins that can clog pores and cause acne and blemishes on the skin are expelled from the body through sweat.

@@mylan3707 solution: pre-arrangements - have a place to washup at work and have a change of clothes. No sweat. Lol.

Definitely!