Kim Walesh rides a PUBLIC Bike around San Jose, California. This Harvard grad is Director of Economic Development and Chief Strategist for the city of San Jose.
The infamous transportation bill that emerged from the office of House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair John Mica is so horrible that even GOP members of the House won’t vote for it, says Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Cycling advocates around California react to the “Bicycle Safety” mandatory sidepath clause in Senator Barbara Boxer’s “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” (MAP-21) transportation spending bill.
Update: The Senate EPW Committee have unamimously voted to approve MAP-21. It moves to the Senate Floor. League of American Bicyclists says there will be other opportunities to snip the Federal road bike ban language from the bill, and they are organizing effort to get Senate attention on this.
The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is meeting right now to consider S.1813, the Senate Bill to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs. This bill, called “MAP 21,” contains language that will ban cyclists from certain roads that are managed by Federal agencies.