[bikeqld] Where is my cycle-commute subsidy?

[mich rolling]

The next Federal Budget will start to focus peoples minds starting next month. As seen below the Danes have sorted out some of the rationale behind paying for cycling; Qld and Australia could do the same.

As a cyclist (currently without a car) I resent my colleague company car
 drivers getting several tax-payer subsidized car related subsidies while I, a gasless (she wishes) rider get sod all. Subsidies include free use of company car for 'home garaging', FBT benefits on leasing and salary packaging lease costs.

Would that Kevvy would give cycle commuters similar tax breaks to car drivers. 

St Anna of Brisbane could also subsidize me 
- lets see 
- 8c/litre petrol subsidy @10km/litre urban cycle 
= 8c subsidy/10,000m
I cycle 100km/week work-related
=80 c/week
I should be getting a state payment of $40/year for commuting, same again
for shopping/social use. St.Anna. Where is my $80/year?

The Borg probably thinks all cycleways should be circular around city parks as bicycles are obviously toys.

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2008/05/rewarding-cyclists.html
3. Get Paid To Ride
All of the common sense above should somehow lead to rewards for cyclists. 
A city council that builds segregated bike lanes, thereby encouraging 
citizens to ride, will be spending less on road works and public health.

In Copenhagen we've discovered that:
One extra kilometre of bike lanes on a road:
Building bike lanes on streets with an average of 2,500 bikes and 10,000 cars each day would bring 18-20% more bikes on the stretch of road.
Including a drop of 9-10% in the number of cars and 9-10% fewer accidents and injury.
- A saving of 246,000 DKK in the health sector.
- A saving of of 643,000 DKK in lost production.
- A collective fall in health, production and accident costs each year totalling 633,000 DKK.
- The extra kilometre would give 170,000 more cycle kilometres each year.
- For every 1 krone spent, society would save 5 kroner.

Now THAT is good economics.


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