Question: When is a bike not transportation?
Answer: When your inside the confused brain of US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters. There is a great article on Salon exposing Peters’ pandering to the automobile and truck industries.
In a recent appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer”, Peters claimed that bridge and highway repairs were being held up because too much money was being diverted to create safe paths and trails for pedestrians and bicyclists. Never mind the fact that the Federal Highway Administration reported that in 2006 over $1 billion in unspent bridge repair funding was returned by state departments of transportation.