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Written by Scott Silver
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Wednesday, 14 March 2001 |
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The US Forest Service is getting ever more creative with the way in which it is 'nickel and diming' people to death with user fees. At the rate things are going the citizens of America will all be required to pay for EXACTLY what we personally use --
-- You take a breath, you pay for it. You take two breaths, you pay twice. You breath deeply and you pay a premium.
Look for a new twist soon coming in the implementation of Fee-Demo. It will be called "value pricing" or "differential pricing" and it will commodify nature to the level of absurdity I just described.
-- You visit a forest on Monday, you pay Monday's discounted rate. You visit that forest on Saturday and you pay Saturday's PREMIUM price. You stop an smell the roses too deeply, and you pay will be asked to pay extra.
Scott
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March 12, 2001
The Arizona Republic
Fee waiver proposed for bicyclists at Colossal Cave park
TUCSON- Bicyclists are proposing a fee waiver that would allow them to
ride through Colossal Cave Mountain Park for free and pay only 50 cents
if they use park facilities.
They pay $1 now whether they ride through or stop. Motorists pay $3 per carload of up to six people.
"Cars make the heavier impact," said Matthew J. Zoll, chairman of the Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee.
The committee proposed the waiver, which will go before Pima County supervisors on Tuesday.
Joe Maierhauser, who has operated the 2,100-acre park since 1956 and is
one of the founders of Pima County Parklands Foundation, said the
entrance fees are needed for signs, upkeep and patrols along the
1.3-mile stretch of Colossal Cave Road.
"I think everybody should pay a little bit," Maierhauser said, noting
that bicyclists as well as motorists benefit from the foundation's
roadway work.
Both foundation officials and cycling enthusiasts estimate that bicyclists enter the park well over 1,000 times a year.
Often, though, riders pass through two bike-only gates before the
tollbooths open. The bike gates remain unlocked around the clock.
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