Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Boxer Confirms That Some Bike/Ped Protections Remain in Final Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 27, 2012 | 11 Comments

UPDATED 4:45 PM Sen. Barbara Boxer just issued the following statement. It confirms that “half of the funds for bike paths and pedestrian walkways [will be allocated] directly to local entities,” as spelled out in the Cardin-Cochran amendment. It appears that the “opt-out” provision for states only applies to the half that they control, after […]

Top 10 Reasons Sen. Boxer Must Keep Her Word on Bike/Ped Programs

By Andy Clarke | Jun 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

This post originally appeared on www.bikeleague.org. The author is the president of the League of American Bicyclists. For the past 20 years, local elected officials have been given rare access to state transportation funds through a handful of programs administered by state Departments of Transportation as grant programs. These also happen to be the primary […]

House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to “opt out” of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations. The House GOP essentially wants to reject the Cardin-Cochran amendment, which gave local governments control over half the “Additional Activities” funding set aside for […]

House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

The House GOP couldn’t pass a transportation bill of their own, so now they want to undo one of the major bi-partisan achievements in the Senate transportation bill. As part of its counter-offer to the Senate in conference committee negotiations over the transportation bill, the House appears to be proposing the elimination of the Cardin-Cochran […]

Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Support Local Control of Bike-Ped Funds

By Ben Goldman | May 31, 2012 | No Comments

A coalition of 70 organizations, including the US Conference of Mayors, American Heart Association, and the National PTA, have signed on to a letter from America Bikes urging Congress to preserve the Cardin-Cochran amendment — a provision in the Senate transportation bill that allows local agencies to directly access funds street safety projects. The letter is addressed […]

Fate of Bike-Ped Compromise Still Unknown as House Reconvenes

By Ben Goldman | May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Senate has left town for their traditional late-May nine-day weekend, while the House has just returned from their own week off. Amid these comings and goings, work continues on the transportation bill, which has been concealed inside the conference committee’s secret underground lair since the beginning of May. Last week, we reported that several […]

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