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Buying A New Bike In Oregon? Get Ready To Pay $15 More

<p>Bike mechanic Barb Bohm-Becker hopes Oregon&rsquo;s $15 new bicycle tax will diffuse claims that cyclists don&rsquo;t pay their share for infrastructure.</p>

Amanda Peacher

Bike mechanic Barb Bohm-Becker hopes Oregon’s $15 new bicycle tax will diffuse claims that cyclists don’t pay their share for infrastructure.

When lawmakers get into discussions about how to pay for roads, bicycles and cycling infrastructure often come up. Some say cyclists don’t pay their share for roads because unlike drivers, they usually don’t pay license or registration fees.

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Amanda Peacher is an Arthur F. Burns fellow reporting and producing in Berlin in 2013. Amanda is from Portland, Oregon, where she works as the public insight journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting. She produces radio and online stories, data visualizations, multimedia projects, and facilitates community engagement opportunities for OPB's newsroom.