kf5nd

Massacre is the only way to describe it.

With the stroke of a bureaucratic pen, and without any voter input, the Texas Dept. of Transportation has unilaterally decided to eliminate $305 million in Federal funding for "enhancement" projects, many of which include bicycle and pedestrian projects.

Read more in the Houston Chronicle for December 1, 2006, also at:

https://www.ctchouston.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=529


What to do? I would get on the horn to your State Representative and Senator, and complain loudly about the actions of Texas DOT, which is a state agency.

Is this the kind of country you want to live in? Where the only projects that get funded are projects that facilitate the use of cars?

Cars have no future. Ask an honest petroleum geologist where we'll be in terms of the worldwide petroleum supply situation in 20 years. Ask a climate researcher about the state of the planet, icecaps, and oceans in 20 years. Ask a public health expert what percentage of us will be obese and diabetic in 20 years, and what our health care costs will be a that point as a result.

Connect the dots, people... and act. Because your life really does depend on it.

Pharmr

I just sent emails to my 3 members of congress.

Platy

Here is a partial list of the de-funded projects.

In my opinion, a lot of them would do nothing to improve bike mobility.

One of the projects I'd like to see funded is bike racks for buses in Dallas.