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We need to regulate vehicles by mass, which is directly proportional to the tires. Pay $0.10 per pound of vehicle annually.
I'm not sure about tire wear, but fun fact: road wear and tear is proportional to vehicle mass raised to the fourth power. If road users were taxed fairly for that and cyclists with average-weight bikes were made to pay 1¢, drivers of average-sized sedans would need to pay millions of dollars.
(That's my go-to response when idiots start talking about bicycle license plates or "cyclists need to pay their fair share," BTW.)
Considering how thin bike tires are compared to car tires and how long they last nonetheless (unless you're doing skid-stops all the time), it seems plausible that the same weight^4^ relationship might apply, which means tire-abrasion microplastics from bicycles would be relatively negligible, compared to ones from cars.
Of course, rail is the real winner in this instance, since it doesn't have this problem to begin with.
Wow, /fuckcars shilling for trains just because theyre 'so much better, objrctively, that there aren't even numbers to compare on this issue.'
You people need to grow the fuck up and be more original.