Colorado is considering a weight-base car fee to address car bloat:

🔹 Fee would would apply to cars >3,500 lbs, up to $29.90/yr (should be higher, but it's a start)

🔹 $$ collected would fund bike lanes, road diets, automatic cameras, etc

🔹 Only collected in the 12 most populous counties

#cars #safety @234e72ee #suvs

https://www.cpr.org/2023/09/29/colorado-pedestrian-safety-suv-truck-owners/

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 The District of Columbia already has weight-based car fees, requiring owners of the biggest cars and trucks (6,000 lbs+) to pay hundreds of $$ per year. 

That's a much stronger policy than what Colorado is proposing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/a-new-way-to-curb-the-rise-of-oversized-pickups-and-suvs

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