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Conference in Trouble; Biking and Walking Still Need Protection
Several developments on Capitol Hill this week suggest that the transportation conference could be in trouble. But even if a transportation bill is unlikely by the next expiration on June 30, it is...
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Why Cardin-Cochran?
While selected members of Congress and their staff meet around the clock to hammer out the details of a new transportation bill, we've been asking staff and legislators to preserve the bipartisan...
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House of Representatives Aims to Eliminate Local Funds for Biking & Walking
The House of Representatives is aiming to eliminate local control over biking and walking funds. If the House gets its way, local governments will lose access to funding for local transportation...
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Future of Biking & Walking Funding Rests With Boxer, Conferees
Negotiations on the transportation bill have reached a new urgency. Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is meeting personally with Representative John Mica (R-FL-7) and other House leaders to decide...
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Will Congress Turn a Blind Eye to 50,000 Preventable Deaths?
This blog post was cross-posted from the League of American Bicyclists. News out of the conference committee working on the federal transportation bill isn’t good. While Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and...
View Article3 Days to Save Biking and Walking Funds
We are in the finals days before the new transportation bill is passed- and we have been told that biking and walking programs have been compromised. Senate and House negotiators are writing the bill...
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As Conference Deadline Approaches, Time is Running Out to Save Biking and...
The members of Congress who are working to pass a new transportation bill face a seemingly insurmountable task, but are nonetheless on track to do it. It's impossible to know exactly what provisions...
View ArticleNegotiations Stretch Another Day
Members of Congress will continue their negotiations today, despite most journalists' expectations that transportation negotiators needed to file a bill by Tuesday night in order to avert a...
View Article85% Chance of a New Bill Today
Congress moved the goal post yet again. When they failed to reach last night’s deadline, they gave themselves until midnight tonight to file. (This means that the Senate may have to stay and vote on...
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New Transportation Bill Cuts Biking & Walking Funding by More Than 60 Percent
On Friday, Congress will vote on a new transportation bill that reverses years of progress on biking and walking policy and cuts by 60 to 70 percent funding for local safety projects such as sidewalks,...
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Well, it's over. Transportation conferees officially filed the transportation bill last night. For the intrepid among us, here is the full text of the bill. The bad news: it's a terrible bill for...
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Analysis of the New Transportation Bill, MAP-21
Here is America Bikes' analysis of the new transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century. Click here to download this analysis as a PDF. (Updated 8/2/12) Table of Contents...
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Send in Your 4th of July Bike Photos
It's almost the 4th of July, which means that soon, people all around the country will deck out their bikes in red, white, and blue for patriotic parades. And we want to see your photos! Even though...
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Patriotic Bikes Aplenty
Independence Day is a classic time for Americans of all ages to take to the streets in bicycles clad in red, white, and blue. Of course, riding bikes isn't only for special occasions. Everyone who...
View ArticleMore Bike Funding, Or Less?
Now that the transportation bill has passed, there has been a bit of confusion about the new law's impact on biking and walking funds. After the bill first passed in the conference committee, The New...
View ArticleFunding in the New Law: A Clarification
In our original analysis, we had found that funding for Transportation Alternatives would come to $702 million per year, representing an overall funding cut of 42% and a 70% cut if certain states...
View ArticleWebinar Slides: Additional Changes to MAP-21
On Thursday, July 19, the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and the Alliance for Biking and Walking held a webinar with Caron Whitaker, America Bikes' campaign director, to update...
View ArticleShifting Gears on the Federal Transportation Bill
The new transportation bill has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, officially making it the law of the land. The bill itself was disappointing — MAP-21 slashed funding for biking and...
View ArticleSlideshow and Factsheet: Changes to Biking and Walking in MAP-21
After the transportation conference committee released their consensus transportation bill, we shared our in-depth analysis of biking and walking programs in the bill and our analysis of how changes to...
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Getting in the Race: An Advocate's Guide to Elections
Plenty of elected officials recognize that better biking and walking policy is key to helping our communities safer, healthier, and stronger. When our elected leaders support biking and walking,...
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