{"id":197626873,"date":"2011-04-07T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197626873"},"modified":"2011-04-07T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:21:13","slug":"senate-committee-hearing-on-environment-and-public-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197626873","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Hearing on Environment and Public Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Kathryn Reid Moore<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Picture-14.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Picture-14-300x252.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: Transit and bikeways &#8220;get people where they need to be, help us with our energy policy, and save us money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maryland Senator Benjamin Cardin was the committee\u2019s most vocal supporter of multi-modal transportation, asking what panelists thought about Highway Trust Fund money being used for non-highway and non-motorized projects, like multi-use trails and bikeways. Every panelist said federal funding should be transportation-specific but flexible, which would leave the question of which mode to spend on up the local agency spending the money.<\/p>\n<p>Some panelists clearly don\u2019t need mandates to invest in bike and pedestrian projects. \u201cA bike path project is important in encouraging people to bike or walk to work,\u201d said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett. \u201cYou are taking cars off the road and it enhances the ability of people to get where they are going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/04\/06\/boxer-tests-out-america-fast-forward-at-senate-committee-hearing\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/04\/06\/boxer-tests-out-america-fast-forward-at-senate-committee-hearing\/<\/a>oldId.20110407082113930<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Kathryn Reid Moore &#8230; Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: Transit and bikeways &#8220;get people where they need to be, help us with our energy policy, and save us money.&#8221; Maryland Senator Benjamin Cardin was the committee\u2019s most vocal supporter of multi-modal transportation, asking what panelists thought about Highway Trust Fund money &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197626873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senate Committee Hearing on Environment and Public Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197626873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197626873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197626873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197626873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197626873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197626873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197626873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}