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Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
(theconversation.com)
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Bikes are a net benefit to society, even when you ridiculously inflate the costs of cycling by including things that are really caused by cars such (as the safety risk) as costs of cycling.
It's both? Road maintenance is mostly paid for by council, which means its money comes from your rates bill (or your landlord's rates bill, and this indirectly out of your rent). The rest is paid for out of state government revenue, such as GST. Every vehicle that uses a road does damage to it. That damage increase with the fourth power of weight (specifically, axle weight), so a car does about 10,000 times the damage of a bike (2000 kg over 2 axles, compared to 100 kg for bike + rider over 1 "axle"). There's so much variety in trucks that it's difficult to pin down one number for them, but yes, they do a lot more than cars.
However, the thing is…the damage done by trucks is caused indirectly by both car users and cyclists, because both drivers and cyclists…buy things. So it's a neutral factor in this conversation. Not relevant.
If its a neutral factor then why didnt the article factor it out?
I don't really know what you mean.