Existing
State Law
California
In 2000, Governor Gray Davis signed a law to increase funding
to the state Bicycle
Transportation Account to $7 million per year to fund bicycle
lanes, trails and improve poorly designed roads. In addition,
the Governor signed the Pedestrian
Safety Act, which increases funding for roadway safety improvements
for bicycles and pedestrians by increasing motorist fines and
establishing an $8 million pedestrian safety fund for local government
grants.
Introduced State Legislation
Maryland
HB 648 - Requests that the Maryland Department of Transportation
and local transit agencies consult and evaluate the feasibility
of adopting and implementing policies to promote and encourage
the usage of mass transit by children, youth, and families.
HB763 - Requires, in each fiscal year, that 3% of the funds
in the Transportation Trust Fund be dedicated for the construction
and maintenance of bicycle ways and sidewalks.
Georgia
SB 104 - Traffic Congestion relief bill requiring various actions
so that at least 20 percent of state employees whose regular duty
work stations are in counties of 400,000 or more will be using
alternative means of commuting by the end of the year 2003.
Illinois
The purpose of this Article (HB2263) is to establish the
Transportation Resources for Innovative Projects Program
to prompt the creation of innovative
transportation to work strategies at the local level, to
assist in the implementation of those strategies, to coordinate
the local, State and federal funding of those programs,
and to access the maximum of federal transportation
to work funding.
Delaware
The Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Bus Act is a proposed
ballot initiative that has been filed with the Attorney General.
It would appear on the November, 2002 ballot. The Traffic Congestion
Relief and Safe School Bus Act is designed to provide transportation
alternatives to make it possible for people to get to work and
make other trips faster, transport their children more safely,
maintain our streets and roads, build new transit and road infrastructure
and reduce the air and water pollution impacts of transportation. |