Calafornia Road Charge Options

[73-914]

Sounds like a great way for EV's to pay their fair share

[Montreal914]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) What next, sidewalk and pedestrians? Dogs?

[wonkipop]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) What next, sidewalk and pedestrian? Dogs?

easy to do. tax your shoes. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

dogs are taxed already down here. no tag = fine - even if leashed.
its illegal for a cat to be outside the house --- period.

jokes aside.
the bike lane one is interesting and probably has merit.
bike lobby pushed very hard for the dedicated network of bike lanes rapidly expanding across the city. roads everywhere have decreased in capacity to accomodate.
and serious numbers of bike and scooter users now commute using them.
so.......some kind of charge even nominal is perhaps appropriate.
everybody walks on the pavement. you pay your regular tazes for that.
the question of the road and its users is perhaps more particular.
for local councils there is the question of revenue loss from less on street carparking too.
so its getting kind of complex down here.

[Shivers]

its illegal for a cat to be outside the house --- period.

Wow, not here, they're all over the place. My neighborhood keeps them inside at night or the coyotes and the great horned owls get them.

[wonkipop]

its illegal for a cat to be outside the house --- period.

Wow, not here, they're all over the place. My neighborhood keeps them inside at night or the coyotes and the great horned owls get them.

yeah - feral cats that have escaped domesticity are devastating to australian marscupial wildlife. and native birds. the cat bans came in probably 25 years ago.
its had quite an effect in the city. alley cats have completely disappeared.
but they are still out there in the bush.

you still see cats sitting inside at windows sills staring forlornly out at birds hopping around in gardens (Thinkin their thoughts of you know what (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ),