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Old September 14th 07, 08:33 PM posted to rec.bicycles.soc
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Default Bike paths made the bridge fall

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../index_np.html

Imagine you're the federal official in the Bush administration charged
with overseeing the nation's transportation infrastructure. A major
bridge collapses on an interstate highway during rush hour, killing 13
people and injuring an additional 100. Whom to blame? How about the
nation's bicyclists and pedestrians!

The Minneapolis bridge collapse on Aug. 1 led Secretary of
Transportation Mary Peters to publicly reflect on federal transportation
spending priorities and conclude that those greedy bicyclists and
pedestrians, not to mention museumgoers and historic preservationists,
hog too much of the billions of federal dollars raised by the gas tax,
money that should go to pave highways and bridges. Better still, Peters,
a 2006 Bush appointee, apparently doesn't see biking and walking paths
as part of transportation infrastructure at all.

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