No in this case I’m talking about licensing your bicycle like I have to license my car. Those registration fees could be put into a fund specifically for cycle infrastructure.

I pay $50 ever five years for my driver's license. How much do you pay to register your car vs. how much you truly believe the roads you drive on cost to build and maintain? Did you even look at the chart? Cycling costs society a net positive amount, meaning cycling infrastructure pays for itself.

I have to register my car annually and it costs somewhere north of $100 and less than $200. Bikes could work the same way, if every bike had a $10 annual license fee that put those funds right back into bike lanes how much could that accomplish?

You are cute if you think the $200 you pay to license your car gets ANYWHERE near paying for the damage your car does to road infrastructure and the literal trillions of dollars spent on highways and roads over the last century. Bikes cause, effectively, zero damage because of how light they are.

how much does the $200 cover of the cost of the infrastructure required to have this registration system? I assume OP doesn't think the people who issue his licence deserve to be paid, nor the IT, nor the mail person, etc. his proposed $10 registration for bike would bring negative revenue.

Reminds me of how I once got a parking ticket because I forgot to add an hour downtown... And the fine was TWENTY DOLLARS. I actually wrote to my councillor to explain that the fine should be an order of magnitude higher because that doesn't even cover the cost of the meter reader.

yeah. someone on my street parked illegally blocking a pedestrian crossing. Got a ticket on the Saturday morning, by the Tuesday they hadn't moved (long week-end). so they ended up getting cheap convenient parking ($25 i think), while people with mobility devices were screwed the whole time.

The concept of socialized wellbeing may be foreign to an American carbrain like yourself. But it is real and it works. Nordic countries save billions on healthcare by providing sustainable transportation options that are neither sedentary nor deadly.

Yeah I'm sure the $50 I pay ever five years for my license is covering the $80,000,000 spent on a single overpass here.

Mine pays for 1-2 minute of the fire truck that has to be sent every time two drivers decide to play live bumper cars.