We all pay it with credit card and they will drop the charges. 
Bike paths to get bikes off the roads? Isn’t that what you want?
Sounds like a win for motorists here.
You lot are never happy.
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My no plates were about CHF800 a year in ZH, plus tax on petrol, not sure the taxation rate but my petrol bill was around CHF12,500 a year doing about 50,000 km a year. It’s the drivers of EV’s that are heavily subsidised & being heavy do more damage to the roads than a similar sized car.
So if they bring the taxes on bicycles in, my electric one should be subsidized.
Was the purchase price subsidised? It is in most countries.
not when I bought mine. It wasn’t hype back then.
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what if you have more than one bike, do you pay per bike, or per head? You cannot use 2 bikes with only one a** . What about access to highways? That’s were the roadtax goes mainly – bikes will still NOT have access to highways, as they don’t reach the minimum speed. And, on a more serious note; is the next step charging also pedestrians for using the roads? after all, it is because of them that a lot of the infrastructure (pedestrian crossings, markings, button-push Ampel) is created…
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Incorrect. Was never in Switzerland (at least not nationwide). For individuals only a handful of countries in the EU (6 in total, only France amongst the larger ones so certainly not “most”).
Most of these schemes are for cargo bikes for businesses which makes sense.
The anti-cycling push used to be a right-wing thing but it’s one of those non-things like trans-women in sports which is a crowd-pleaser, despite the often-quoted “statistics” being proved false under scrutiny.
It’s such a crowd-please that the left-wing Labour government in the UK has also jumped on the band-wagon trying to push through a bill so cyclists would get fined ten times what a car driver would for driving in a pedestrian zone.
The first hit on Google suggests 300 bicycle tax & incentive Schemes in Europe
That’s unfortunately a successful political recipe these days: We don’t care how things could be made better for anyone. It is more satisfying to see people we don’t like getting punished.
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…and you can find a summary of them all here (linked from your link) Tracker Money for bikes - ECF
As I said, mostly targetted at business users and/or cargo bikes with the objective of reducing delivery van activity. But only 6 national schemes for individuals for regular e-bikes.
Great idea. Lets start with cyclists jumping the red light automatically charged to their ccs. I bet you, more income than cycle vignette would ever bring.
As a cyclist, I don’t have a problem with that.
It won’t cost me anything.
But in the same line of thinking, how about a device in cars which deducts CHF40 from the driver’s credit card every time they go over the speed limit?
How much every time they use their mobile phone whilst driving?
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I don’t think we are more than 10 years away from that… give or take. With the current development of AI, apps and technology – and big brother jumping through some more than dubious data protection hurdles almost every week, I am pretty fearful that we’re closer to ‘1984’, than what we believe. (oh no! a conspirationist! ) 
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Which is awesome. Subsidies for bikes and train means next time I drive congestion is lower. People likes trains and bikes? Let them have it and not occupy space on the road. People that don’t like to drive are not forced to drive, and people who like to drive enjoy driving.
Only thing better than this would be congestion pricing.
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