National Bike Summit: The health of the bike movement — and its future under Trump - BikePortland.org

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One of the big questions I’m working on this week is: How will bicycling and bike advocacy change in the age of Trump?

I asked experienced policy strategist and Director of the SRAM Cycling Fund Randy Neufeld that question. You might not like his answer.

“The sad news is that we move from opportunity and being proactive, to defense,” he said. “And that’s really hard.”

Here’s more from Neufeld:

“There’s a lot of discussion about, do we spend a lot of energy defending the federal piece of active transportation funding when the state and local contribution is much bigger and much more significant? And I think — like transit — as much as we’d like to wean ourselves from the federal share [of funding], it’s still pretty damn important… I think we’re going to have to do defense. It’s also a fundraising opportunity for the movement. It’s an opportunity to reach out to new partners and create coalitions. But it does mean going into protection mode — as opposed to growing opportunites.”

We’ll very likely hear more about how cycling will fare in the Trump adminstration when Portland Congressman Earl Blumenauer takes the stage for the big Summit keynote in the morning. Speaking of which, I need to get some sleep.

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National Bike Summit: The health of the bike movement — and its future under Trump - BikePortland.org