text: The most fair is a weight-mile tax.  Pounds per mile traveled.   That is how roads are worn out.  The advent of electric vehicles negated the fuel tax.  Take the fuel tax off,  in its entirety.  You get the money back for roads in a weight mile tax.  You file your tax on the date of your birth,  each year.  You have a lottery compliance system,  where 10% of vehicles,  by license plate #,  are verified with a triple fine for false information,  and jail time for fraudulent returns.  Big fines.  A financial wound for avoidance.  And driver license loss for a year  for private individual or business license for a year for commercial.
  
  A yearly license for bicycles of at least $100.  If my 5x10 utility trailer,  parked 99.9% of the time,  has an $86 license,  bikes must be double that,  at the least.  
  
  As far as trains to haul straw to Seattle/Tacoma,  that is purely a result of the mishandling of container dock,  Terminal 6,  by the Governor appointed Port Commission,  Director.