Bike advocates will be pleased with the talk coming from the direction of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
"There’s a difference between bike-safety warnings that focus on blaming victims and warnings that recommend actual systemic improvements. The launch of a Mayors’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx is the good kind of warning," according to a post by Michael Anderson for Streetsblog USA.
The article goes on to list and detail four ways the new initiative succeeds in supporting bike advocacy efforts:
- The feds want cities to measure successful bike trips, not just bad ones.
- When biking is done right, it becomes part of aging-friendly cities.
- U.S. DOT continues to push the bike-friendly NACTO guides.
- The FHWA is creating a workbook about how to build on-road bicycle networks through routine resurfacing programs.
Although the report is full of recommendations of this sort of multi-modalism thinking, U.S. DOT will not be attaching any funding to these recommendations.
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