BIKE: 15 Percent Bicycle-Pedestrian Set-Aside is on the table

[Michael Bluejay]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 09:53  AM, Bob Farr wrote:

> Yes fellow cyclists, the glass half-full (the meager 15 percent of 
> Federal TEA
> 21 funds currently set-aside for bike/pedestrian projects in the CAMPO 
> area) is
> about to be snatched from the table and handed over to other 
> air-quality
> enhancment priorites (perhaps to fund an exit ramp or a few hundred 
> yards of HOV
> lane). Nobody really knows where that money will be spent, but it's a 
> sure bet
> that less will be targeted toward bike/pedestrian projects -- unless 
> you speak
> up.
>
> We've got 2 weeks for public comments; until 3 December 2003. CAMPO 
> Board
> Members need to hear from tax-paying citizens like us who believe that
> encouraging the use of bikes and pedestrians contributes much more 
> toward
> improving air quality than does moving more cars and trucks faster, 
> through the
> same matix.


Neither this nor the ACA website (which refers to the CAMPO meeting 
"last night") gives me a clear picture of what happened at the CAMPO 
meeting.  Sometimes we hear of upcoming meetings on this list but we 
rarely hear the outcome.  What was the outcome?  Did they vote on 
anything, or did they simply delay the decision until Dec. 3?  And on 
the one hand the ACA site says, in bold print no less, that we don't 
have enough votes to maintain the bike funding and so they'll be 
working with TBC to figure out the next steps, but then we're 
encouraged to send comments in to CAMPO even though it's supposedly for 
naught because "we don't have enough votes".

What happened at the meeting, and where are we really at?

-MBJ-