Opening Salvo in Highway Funding Fight | League of American Bicyclists

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Kicking bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit users out of federal transportation programs is the solution to an insolvent Highway Trust Fund — according to a coalition of 50 traditionally conservative think-tanks and policy groups.

In a sign-on letter issued yesterday, this influential and well-connected group proposed eliminating funding for all non-motorized and transit projects and programs rather than raising the gas tax to bail out the chronically insolvent Highway Trust Fund — the mechanism by which funding is collected and distributed for transportation investments as prescribed by the transportation bill Congress is supposed to pass every now and then.

This scorched-earth proposal would eliminate the ability of local transportation agencies to invest in their own transportation priorities and lock us all into a 1950’s–style highway- and car-only mentality that flies in the face of common sense — not to mention economics and what the free market and simple demographics have been telling us for years.

People want choice, and bicycling, walking and transit are critical elements of a balanced transportation system that is in the best interests of the nation.

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