US Secretary of Transportation says Bikes "are not transportation"
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 08.20.07
Interviewed on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters said that instead of raising taxes on gasoline to renew the nation's sagging infrastructure, Congress should examine its spending priorities -- including investments in bike paths and trails, which, Peters said, "are not transportation."
Quotes provided by Streetsblog:
"There are museums that are being built with that money, bike paths, trails, repairing lighthouses. Those are some of the kind of things that that money is being spent on, as opposed to our infrastructure."
"Well, there's about probably some 10 percent to 20 percent of the current spending that is going to projects that really are not transportation, directly transportation-related. Some of that money is being spent on things, as I said earlier, like bike paths or trails." Read the full transcript or video at ::PBS via ::Streetsblog
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