Summary
Cries of outrage reverberated across the country when House Republicans, led by Rep. John Mica of Florida, chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, proposed a 30 percent reduction in federal surface-transportation spending. Never mind that all Mr. Mica's plan does is limit spending to no more than the gas taxes and other highway user fees that fund federal surface- transportation programs.
Still, cyclists and transit advocates are having hissy fits because Republicans would reduce subsidies to their favored forms of travel - subsidies paid, for the most part, by people who rarely ride a bike or use transit. While the Interstate Highway System and most state highways were funded almost entirely out of road user fees, transit and cycling proponents think other people should pay for bike paths, rail lines and other facilities dedicated exclusively to their use.See the full content of this document
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Bike Trails
Congress passes a surface-transportation bill every six years, and the last several bills increasingly were dominated by an anti- automobile philosophy. The advocates of this view offer technologicall...
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