I’ve called and emailed my representative and the house committee. Be sure that you do the same.

Next Thursday, the House Transportation Committee will vote on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, a bill that eliminates crucial funds for biking and walking. Representatives on the Transportation Committee are key positions to save dedicated funding for biking and walking.

If your representative is on the Transportation Committee, you are in a unique position to ask your elected official to preserve dedicated funding for biking and walking. Checkthis list to see if your representative is a Transportation Committee member. If so, please take a moment to contact them and let them know they are putting thousands of Americans, as well as our environment, at risk. If your representative is not, please contact them anyway and remind them that bicycle infrastructure is key to improving America’s transportation, particularly in the current economic climate. You can also call the Committee offices directly and voice your concern at (202) 225-9446.

America Bikes is working to introduce an amendment that will preserve funding for biking and walking. During Thursday’s vote, Representatives on the Transportation Committee will have the opportunity to pass this amendment to save biking and walking. We need to send a message to Congress that biking and walking deserve a share of transportation funding. 

(Source: rbateson, via bikeladiesunite)

I think this is an incredible response to Bachmann’s idiotic and dangerously irresponsible statement.

Two bioethics professors have offered to pay more than $10,000 for medical records that prove the anecdote Bachmann told after Monday night’s Republican presidential debate is true, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

This is ridiculous and disgraceful. Shame on you Gov. Jan Brewer. Get loud people.

Thanks to livejamie for bringing this to my attention.

$6 Million dollars, 600 bicycles, and 61 stations planned for July, 2011. I have not the words to describe how excited I am that the City of Boston has finalized their deal for a bike sharing network in the city. This program will hopefully have a lot of positive impacts for the cycling community here on Boston, but the one’s I’ll really be looking for are:

• Motorists becoming more accustomed to cyclists because we will be EVERYWHERE
• Greater demand for cycling infrastructure
• Traffic calming. There is NO reason that people need to go more than 25mph within a city. Doing so is unsafe for everyone, but especially pedestrians and cyclists.
• More recognition of cycling as a legitimate form of transportation because IT IS.
• People treating cycling as mainstream or reasonable. I cannot count the number of times people have surprisingly said something like “You biked here?” to me.

See more on the Globe and the City of Boston.