{"id":519,"date":"2011-10-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2011\/10\/27\/federal-bike-and-ped-funds-under-attack-again\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:00:00","slug":"federal-bike-and-ped-funds-under-attack-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/27\/federal-bike-and-ped-funds-under-attack-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Bike and Ped Funds Under Attack Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
Updated 11\/2\/2011:<\/b>\u00a0 Thanks to all who took action on this one!\u00a0 The amendment was defeated!<\/span><\/div>\n

It\u2019s happening again, folks.\u00a0 Another US Senator is attacking Transportation Enhancements funding.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.\u00a0 He has offered an amendment that will strip all funding for Transportation Enhancements and shift it to bridge repair.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Please contact SenatorsPatty Murray and Maria Cantwell<\/b><\/a> and ask them to vote against the Paul amendment (SA-821) to eliminate Transportation Enhancements.\u00a0 The Senate is expected to finalize its Transportation appropriations bill on November 1, so please take action quickly.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jeff Miller of the Alliance for Biking and Walking stated in a message:<\/span><\/div>\n
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We agree on the need to keep our bridges safe, but the lives of pedestrians and cyclists are important too.<\/span><\/b> Thirteen people died when the Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007. Since then, close to 20,000 pedestrians and 2,800 cyclists have died on our nation\u2019s highways, largely as a result of poor highway design and a lack of safe non-motorized infrastructure \u2013 exactly what the enhancement program was created to fix.<\/span>
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If Sen. Paul\u2019s amendment is successful, it would eliminate approximately $700 million in federal funding for FY2012 that is used to construct sidewalks, bike lanes, bike paths, trails and other infrastructure that makes it safe for bicyclists and pedestrians to get around.<\/b> Even if every penny of these funds is diverted to bridge repairs, Senator Paul\u2019s plan will still take 80 years to fix the backlog of bridge repairs we have today<\/a><\/b> \u2014 by which time all those repaired bridges would be falling down again. <\/span>
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Please use this link<\/a><\/b> to the League of American Bicyclists Action Center to contact Senators Murray and Cantwell today.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated 11\/2\/2011:\u00a0 Thanks to all who took action on this one!\u00a0 The amendment was defeated! 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