The League of American Bicyclists makes this excellent point:
"Safety: Thirteen people died when the Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007: since then, close to 20,000 pedestrians and 2,800 cyclists have died on our nation’s highways, largely as a result of poor highway design and an historic lack of safe non-motorized infrastructure – exactly what the enhancement program was created to fix. No bridges have collapsed since 2007."
B’ Spokes: Of course the real issues is it’s not bike/ped spending that’s keeping bridges from being fixed, it’s over stressing capacity building that is returning less and less value on the dollar.
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https://www.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/09/kentucky-senator-suggests-bikeped-funding-switch/oldId.20110926234633869
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