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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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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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