Bicycle Infrastructure
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CA Rep. Hunter: Roads Constitutionally Mandated, Transit Must Pay For Itself
Streetsblog Capitol Hill caught up with Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) yesterday after the T&I Committee meeting wrapped up. He’s the only new Republican on the committee who’s not also a new member of Congress. He followed his father, also named Duncan Hunter, into the seat in 2008. Hunter is on the Republican Study Committee that recently pushed for cutting $100 billion from the federal budget. New to transportation and infrastructure issues, Hunter has mainly focused on military matters and immigration.
January 27, 2011
Senate Committee Backs Infrastructure Spending (But Not For Bike Lanes)
“We need to take care of this sooner than later,” Sen. Barbara Boxer said this morning in reference to a surface transportation reauthorization. “We can’t keep doing extension after extension.”
January 26, 2011
Bicycle Advocates Thank LaHood, Talk Strategy
This was a big week for bike advocates: They had a pow-wow with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, launched a new coalition, and refined their strategy for the 112th Congress.
January 14, 2011
Combat Joblessness, Stripe a Bike Lane
A bummer of a jobs report came out today, showing that although unemployment dropped to its lowest point in 19 months, it's still way higher than economists had hoped.
January 7, 2011
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: The Last of the Streetsies 2010
We couldn’t put a bow on 2010 until we’d thanked those who contributed to the cause of sustainable transportation and smart growth last year and shaken our fist at those who’d done their darnedest for sprawl and highways. Check out our first two installments of national, state and local Streetsie winners. Here are our parting thoughts and your final votes. Then we can really move into 2011.
January 5, 2011
AAA Gets an Earful From Members About Equality for Bikes
In July of last year, when AAA launched their roadside bicycle repair service, cyclists got a warm fuzzy feeling for a minute and thought AAA was about as bike-friendly as an automobile organization could be. That bubble burst in July when AAA Mid-Atlantic President and CEO Don Gagnon editorialized that highway trust fund money should be reserved just for highways [PDF].
December 13, 2010
Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates
The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access.
December 10, 2010
Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability
In the Netherlands, 30 percent of trips under five miles are by bike.
November 18, 2010
Will Florida’s Next Governor Sink the State’s Chances for Rail?
We're keeping the news coming on the governor’s races we're following most closely. Check out our previous coverage of Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee. This one could be the most important yet.
November 1, 2010
Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows
Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year's all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which begs the question of what will happen to bike-ped funding once the stimulus funds dry up. We got some somber foreshadowing last week of what could happen to bike-ped funding if Republicans cut the transportation bill to the "core program."
November 1, 2010