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Old Posted Sep 16, 2015, 3:49 PM
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House Dems: We Won’t Support a Transpo Bill That Cuts Bike/Ped Funding

I am pretty sure that the reason we have a multi-trillion dollar deficit in unmet infrastructure needs not because we spend one half of one percent of federal transportation money on bicycle and pedestrian enhancements. The reason is that we haven't raised the federal gas tax in nearly 25 years (again, how many of you wouldn't mind getting paid in 1993 dollars?).

There are more than 3,000 annual pedestrian fatalities and more than 700 cyclist fatalities every year in the United States. Instead of cutting this funding, we need to be increasing investments in bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure-- some of the most cost-effective transportation investments we can make.

House Dems: We Won’t Support a Transpo Bill That Cuts Bike/Ped Funding

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/09/1...keped-funding/
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