What happened when Congress passed the FAST Act? Congress Increases Funding for Biking, and Adds New Safety Program | League of American Bicyclists

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Overall the active transportation community did really well. The new bill includes an increase in funding for bicycling and walking and makes nonprofits eligible for that funding. The bill also creates a new safety education program and, for the first time, includes complete streets language.

We didn’t get everything we want, and there are some things we don’t like, including changes to the metropolitan transportation alternatives funding and changes to highway safety funding. There are also several places we wish language could be stronger, but overall the FAST Act is an improvement on MAP-21 for biking.

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What happened when Congress passed the FAST Act? Congress Increases Funding for Biking, and Adds New Safety Program | League of American Bicyclists

MoBikeFed comment: This is an excellent overview of what happened late in 2015 when Congress passed the FAST Act, which will set transportation policy and funding levels across the U.S. for the next several years.