Obama Bicycle Policy Wins Love From Cyclists, Scorn From Trucking Industry

The beginning of the end for mindless road widening?

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a weekend bicyclist, might consider keeping his head down and his helmet on. A backlash is brewing over his new bicycling policy.

LaHood says the government is going to give bicycling – and walking, too – the same importance as automobiles in transportation planning and the selection of projects for federal money. The former Republican congressman quietly announced the "sea change" in transportation policy last month.

"This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized," he wrote in his government blog.

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Comments

[Al Foeckler]

I drove past the Poblocki Paving sign off I-94 this morning (famously known for having catchy sayings on it) and thought of this post as I read the sign:

Baseball
Hot Dogs
Apple Pie
The smell of asphalt

You and the Obama administration are obviously un-American.

[John Michlig]

I am, however, known as a voracious supporter of baseball.

Though, as a team sport, it reeks of socialism ....