Tag: rescissions

July 26, 2011

Cascade: State rescissions not as bad this year

The state’s federal transportation rescissions will not hit bicycle and pedestrian funding disproportionately this year as they did in 2010, according to Cascade Bicycle Club. There were concerns the state would raid vulnerable non-highway funding again, but the majority of funds will be from the Interstate maintenance budget line.
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tagged: rescissions, usdot, wsdot
July 8, 2011

Tell the state not to raid funding for bicycling and walking again this year

Washington State budgets an astronomically higher amount of money on motor-vehicle-centric highway projects than any other means of transportation. Yet when it comes time to make cuts and give back Federal transportation funds, as happens often, WSDOT has in past years reached into the already underfunded pots needed to make bicycling and walking safer, easier…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, chris gregoire, rescissions, usdot, wsdot
May 24, 2011

Washington state is the most bike-friendly but gets D in infrastructure

Washington tops a list of bike-friendly states released by the League of American Bicyclists. For their annual state biking report card, Washington did well in every category except “infrastructure,” where we got a big fat D. According to Biking Bis, the rankings are based on a questionnaire answered by the state bicycle coordinators. States are…
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tagged: league of american bicyclists, rescissions, washington state, wsdot
October 4, 2010

Washington State walking and biking projects hit disproportionately

The feds are rescinding transportation money, and walking and biking projects are getting hit harder than other programs, according to data from Rails to Trails. Among the worst? Washington State. Although “transportation enhancement” funding (where most pedestrian and bike funding falls) only made up 2.1 percent of the state’s federal transportation funding, it represents a…
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tagged: rails to trails, rescissions, washington state