National coverage of National Bike Summit this week
Politico is covering this week's National Bike Summit.
ON TAP FOR TUESDAY: Welcome to March Madness! No, your MT scribe isn't talking about the college basketball tourney but a playoff of another sort - dueling D.C. conferences. The National League of Cities, APTA and the National Bike Summit are all hosting events in the nation's capital today. If you're an early riser, check out the APTA general session, kicking off at 8:30 a.m., with appearances from Sens. Sherrod Brown and Dean Heller and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Vision Zero: And over at the National Bike Summit, the group is expected to throw its support behind the 'Vision Zero Act,' a bill introduced last week by Bike Caucus co-chairs Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Vern Buchanan. The bipartisan bill would create two DOT grant programs to help communities develop plans for getting all transportation-related deaths down to zero.
Vision Zero is one of our main issues this year. The others are:
- Preserving bicycle and pedestrian funding in the upcoming Federal transportation funding renewal. This funding came under severe attack two years ago in the renewal; Missouri's congressional delegation was key in staving off that attack and preserving funding. They are likely to play a key role again in 2015!
- Local control: In the last federal transportation funding bill, major metropolitan areas got more control of transportation funding--especially funding for biking and walking, which is by its nature local.
But an ongoing battle in Missouri has been to preserve a fair share of funding for smaller cities and metro areas--St Joseph, Columbia, Jefferson City, Joplin, Cape Girardeau, and the like--who have ambitous bicycle and pedestrian plans but never seem to get their fair share of the transportation budget to put them in place.
The TAPIA Act (Transportation Alternative Program Improvement Act) addresses that problem head-on by giving smaller metro areas more direct control of their federal bike/ped funds.
Find out more about these issues--or contact your own congressmembers to support them--here.
2015 National Bike Summit Coverage
- What issues will will be talking about with Missouri members of Congress at the 2015 National Bike Summit?
- Read more of MoBikeFed's coverage of the 2015 National Bike Summit here
- Past years' National Bike Summit coverage here
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