{"id":483,"date":"2012-02-01T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2012\/02\/01\/bicycle-and-pedestrian-programs-are-under-attack-dont-let-congress-turn-the-clock-back-on-biking-and-walking\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:40:00","slug":"bicycle-and-pedestrian-programs-are-under-attack-dont-let-congress-turn-the-clock-back-on-biking-and-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/01\/bicycle-and-pedestrian-programs-are-under-attack-dont-let-congress-turn-the-clock-back-on-biking-and-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs Are Under Attack! Don\u2019t let Congress turn the clock back on biking and walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tomorrow, Thursday February 2, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will vote on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, a bill that eliminates crucial funding for biking and walking programs and guts two decades of progress.<b> <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">US<b> <\/b>Representatives <b><a href=\"http:\/\/larsen.house.gov\/\">Rick Larsen<\/a><\/b> (WA-02) and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/herrerabeutler.house.gov\/\">Jaime Herrera Beutler<\/a><\/b> (WA-03) are members of this committee and they are in a key position to save dedicated funding for biking and walking.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act turns the clock back on two decades of biking and walking progress.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0 The bill<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Destroys Transportation Enhancements by making the program optional\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Repeals the Safe Routes to School program, reversing years of progress in creating safe ways for kids to walk and ride bicycles to school\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Removes requirements for states to build bridges with safe access for pedestrians and bicycles\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Eliminates bicycle and pedestrian coordinators in state DOTs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\">If you live in Representative Larsen\u2019s or Representative Beutler Herrera\u2019s district, please contact them today!<\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\"; font-size: small;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Use this <a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/lab\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=60787356&#038;PROCESS=Take+Action\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">link <\/span><\/b><\/a>to the League of American Bicyclists&#8217; Action Center to ask them to support the Petri-Johnson amendment to restore dedicated funding for biking and walking programs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for taking action!<\/span><br \/>\u00a0<br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Thursday February 2, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will vote on the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34,45,44,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alert","category-bike-funding-policy-wa","category-bike-issues-advocacy","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs Are Under Attack! 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