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.