Originally Posted by
CB HI
Go back and read TEA for the requirement.
Your quote adds the responsibility to continue certification in TEA21 for greater than 50% transportation use. Interesting how you want to redefine transportation use to stretch your efforts to be right.
How many of your walkers on your MUPs are carrying grocery bags back home from the store? Bet none of them are traveling to and from work.
No, I'm simply pointing out that "transportation" does not have strict legal definition for most activities, there is no requirement to monitor "primary" (by percentage - 50% or more) usage and there is no mechanism for enforcing primary use of anything.
You appear to be making a case that trails can't be used for a casual walk because of the way they are funded, or that usage has to be "primarily" something that falls under the ill-defined title of "transportation". But what you're talking about doesn't really exist. Any municipality that wants Federal funds for a trail that connects any two places people work or live is going to meet the minimum definition of "transportation" and get the funds, and those funds don't come with annual compliance requirements. So I don't know how anything you're talking about actually matters to the question of how trails actually get used.