From the Virginia Bicycling Federation:<\/p>\n
The recent attack on all federal bike-ped funding has been thwarted, but the 39-59 vote for S. Amendment 2371 was too close for our comfort.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own Sen. Webb supported Sen. Coburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack on Transportation Enhancements.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very disappointed in Sen. Webb, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sure many of you are too.\u00c2\u00a0 So contact Sen. Webb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, and let him know how you feel.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell him that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re disappointed in his performance, and urge him to support Transportation Enhancements from now on.<\/p>\n
Thanks to everyone who called and wrote to their legislators already.\u00c2\u00a0 But the battle isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t over yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Your continued support is needed, to ensure funding will still be available for anything besides motor vehicle facilities. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s think about moving people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not just cars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The background here is that Coburn’s amendment prohibited any spending of funds on pedestrian or cycling-related transportation improvements until every car-based priority had been fulfilled.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a terribly backward policy, and not one that Webb (or any other Senator) should be supporting.\u00c2\u00a0 Please take a second to let him know.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the Virginia Bicycling Federation: The recent attack on all federal bike-ped funding has been thwarted, but the 39-59 vote for S. Amendment 2371 was too close for our comfort. Surprisingly, Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own Sen. Webb supported Sen. Coburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack on Transportation Enhancements.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very disappointed in Sen. Webb, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sure many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}