Posted on 06/16/2010 6:46:01 PM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration more than doubled spending on cycling and walking initiatives to $1.2 billion (£810 million) last year as it seeks to coax Americans out of their cars.
Spending on biking and walking projects rose from less than $600 million (£407 million) in 2008, according to the Federal Highway Administraion. Twenty years ago, the federal government was spending only $6 million a year on such projects.
The spending on biking and walking projects was scheduled to rise last year anyway, but the administration boosted it with $400 million in funds set aside under the economic recovery program.
The new focus on biking and walking represents a turnaround from the administration of President George W Bush. Mary Peters, transportation secretary under Bush, dismissed biking paths and trails as projects that "really are not transportation," saying they had no place in federal transportation policy.
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Sure doesn't. There is no way I'm going to ride a bike to work in 105° Summer heat and 5° temps through deep snow drifts during Winter.
No kidding.... I didn't see any photo ops of Obama jogging or biking while in Louisiana recently.
He is spending money like an irresponsible 16yr old with Daddy's American Express Gold card.
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LOL, she who shouldn’t be wearing thongs and tight pants. I suspect tho those pants fit OK until the O’s arrived at the WH and could order up whatever they wanted in unlimited quantities.
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