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Posts on ‘April 14th, 2010’

Transportation Secretary LaHood calls on bike/ped to get equal footing to cars

This flew in under the radar a few weeks ago, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that moving forward pedestrian and bicycle facilities would be put on an equal footing as cars in federally funded transportation projects. Essentially, people and bicycles would no longer be treated as an afterthought or unwelcome additions to roads [...]