Posted on 03/27/2010 5:32:03 PM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision” that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving.
“Today I want to announce a sea change,” he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of nonmotorized.”
The new policy, which was introduced a few days after Mr. LaHood gave a well-received speech from atop a table at the National Bike Summit, is said to reflect the Transportation Department’s support for the development of fully integrated transportation networks.
It calls on state and local governments to go beyond minimum planning and maintenance requirements to provide convenient and safe amenities for bikers and walkers. “Walking and biking should not be an afterthought in roadway design,” the policy states.
Transportation agencies are urged to take action on a number of fronts, including the creation of pathways for bike riders and pedestrians on bridges, and providing children with safe biking and walking routes to schools.
They are also encouraged to find ways to make such improvements in concert with road maintenance projects and to protect sidewalks and bike lanes in the same manner as roads (by clearing them of snow, for example).
(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Speechless...the Chinese want to become more like we once were...Capitalist, while our Government wants to turn this country into a twenty-first century version of 1970’s Maoist China...
Speechless...the Chinese want to become more like we once were...Capitalist, while our Government wants to turn this country into a twenty-first century version of 1970’s Maoist China...
Yupo, that makes great sense . Open up the roads to foot traffic like they do in any African third world nation.... a small step for man and a huge step backwards for mankind!
You cant make this crap up!!!
the obot is a complete loon. Walking and biking are completely unpractical. So, you think you are going to walk or bike in Houston in the summer? Lots of luck with that and I don’t care how much you spend on walking paths - you’ll be dead from heat stroke and if not, you’ll be unfit for work if you manage to get there. Maybe carry your groceries home? Sour milk anyone?
Try a bike in Chicago during the winter?
Most locations in the US are small towns and rural. Cars and trucks are the mood of transportation and no goofball marxist has the power to change reality.
Imagine big tri-cycles pulling trailers as the way food will be delivered in the future.
Riiight... We’re all going to be on bikes while we pay for them to be in limos. These people are lunatics who need to be committed for everyone’s own good.
Well, I can see Obama using bicycles to solve numerous problems...
Michelle’s anti-obesity initiatives, green energy by attaching a bike to a generator, and this transportation policy to reduce traffic. It’s like a win-win-win!
The only thing worse than a Marxist-committed Democrat is a (formerly conservative) Republican who sells out to Obama.
Don’t forget Nancy and her jet!
The way the economy’s going, I wouldn’t be surprised to see people riding horses again.
Does that mean bicyclists will pay the same for their license plates?
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OK. Government employees go first.
Including IRS agents and Census takers.
I suggest that the politicians in D.C. lead by example. Get rid of the private jets, limos, SUV motorcades, etc. and ride bikes instead.
The only way children can have safe walking and biking paths is if pedophiles aren’t allowed to roam about.
When I was in China in 1998, I was surprised at the large numbers of bicycles, many of which appeared vintage. The Chinese rode the bicycles through all types of weather, even pulling large loads. I never dreamed that I was looking at the USSA in 2020.
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