A conversation with Rep. Krieger about his bike registration bill
Friday, March 6th, 2009"This is an opportunity for the bicyclists to start contributing to our roads... everybody needs to contribute to what's there... if there were not bicycles we wouldn't need bicycle lanes."
-- Rep. Wayne Krieger
Representative Wayne Krieger (R-Gold Beach) wants everyone who owns a bicycle in the state of Oregon to pay a mandatory, $54 registration fee (and then renew it for another $54 every two years).
He is the chief architect of House Bill 3008, a proposal that was met with a lot of negative responses on this site when I reported on it today. (more...)
