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10-24-09 | 08:13 AM

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The Human Car

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From: Baltimore, MD +/- ~100 miles

All Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) are required by Federal law (SAFETEA-LU and up coming CLEAN-TEA) to do just that - make plans. Funding them and getting them on the ground is a whole other ball of wax.

The Alliance for Biking and Walking released figures on the current federal rescission and funds that can be used for bike/ped projects, which basically says more then our fair share of bike/ped projects got killed to support more car centric roads.

-------FHWA Formula-Final Rescissions-Difference
MI----$7,228,923----$21,081,084----$13,852,161--Transportation Enhancements
MI----$19,307,955---$14,270,507---$(5,037,448)--CMAQ
MI----$1,053,235----$3,071,458-----$2,018,223----Recreational Trails Program

As I said funding bike ped projects is the hot issue now.

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Last edited by The Human Car; 10-24-09 at 08:16 AM. Reason: Formating

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