{"id":430428,"date":"2010-03-15T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79284"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:03:16","slug":"lahood-%e2%80%98this-is-the-end-of-favoring-motorized-transportation%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430428","title":{"rendered":"LaHood: \u2018This Is the End of Favoring Motorized Transportation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week&#8217;s National Bike Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood <a href=\"http:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/03\/my-view-from-atop-the-table-at-the-national-bike-summit.html\">announced today<\/a> a &#8220;sea change&#8221; in American transportation policy.<\/p>\n<p>Proclaiming the &#8220;end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized,&#8221; LaHood sent the following recommendations to state departments of transportation as well as local governments and groups:<span id=\"more-79284\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat walking and bicycling as equals with other transportation  modes.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure convenient access for people of all ages and abilities.<\/li>\n<li>Go beyond minimum design standards.<\/li>\n<li>Collect data on walking and biking trips.<\/li>\n<li>Set a mode share target for walking and bicycling.<\/li>\n<li>Protect sidewalks and shared-use paths the same way roadways are  protected (for example, snow removal)<\/li>\n<li>Improve nonmotorized facilities during maintenance projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these are just recommendations, and you won&#8217;t see LaHood scrap the Highway Trust Fund in favor of a cycling fund. But this announcement does represent a tangible manifestation of a new direction in transportation policy that&#8217;s making <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Earl_Blumenauer.jpg\">Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)<\/a> look more mainstream by the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week&#8217;s National Bike Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a &#8220;sea change&#8221; in American transportation policy. Proclaiming the &#8220;end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized,&#8221; LaHood sent the following recommendations to state departments of transportation as well as local governments and groups: Treat walking and bicycling as equals with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}