Cycle path story in Daily Fail leads to comments so hackneyed they’re almost comical

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On a Daily Mail story about a relatively useless – but no doubt expensive – road painting exercise, the ranters were quick to heap scorn on cyclists for “not paying road tax.”

In fact, the first two comments related to this mistaken belief, and the third was also a classic of its kind: the commenter said cyclists are only safe when they wear bicycle helmets.

Such ignorance of how roads are actually funded (it’s local and national taxation) isn’t confined to ranters on infuriating forums, even the UK Minister for Roads isn’t so sharp on the subject.

DON’T CALL IT ‘ROAD TAX’, CALL IT CAR TAX
It’s not road tax, or the road fund licence (both ceased to exist in 1937), it’s car tax. Simple.

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