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Zorro

(17,940 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:08 PM Sep 22

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed 'Hostile' to Cars

Source: Bloomberg

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.

A San Diego County road improvement project including bike lanes “appears to reduce lane capacity and a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles,” a US Department of Transportation official wrote, rescinding a $1.2 million grant it awarded nearly a year ago.

In Fairfield, Alabama, converting street lanes to trail space on Vinesville Road was also deemed “hostile” to cars, and “counter to DOT’s priority of preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles.”

Officials in Boston got a similar explanation, as the Trump administration pulled back a previously awarded grant to improve walking, biking and transit in the city’s Mattapan Square neighborhood in a way that would change the “current auto-centric configuration.” Another grant to improve safety at intersections in the city was terminated, the DOT said, because it could “impede vehicle capacity and speed.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/trump-cancels-trail-bike-lane-grants-deemed-hostile-to-cars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODU2NDQ3MywiZXhwIjoxNzU5MTY5MjczLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlpXMlpHT1QwSkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNjgyQTUwQzJCRDM0MTFCQTgwQjEwQjZEQjczQzM1MSJ9.EaRZO08hrZHporqtKO0cTM8PO8OlNBM0eZloztKXTlc

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Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed 'Hostile' to Cars (Original Post) Zorro Sep 22 OP
Can't wait till we get back in power and "pull back "all of the money Republicans voted to spend Walleye Sep 22 #1
It would be a difficult to find money after they've mishandled it. Harker Sep 22 #17
And a lot of it won't even be located in the United States Walleye Sep 22 #20
Why pass a budget bill when all the present administration are going to do..................... Lovie777 Sep 22 #2
Oh look, they found another way to kill Americans. Doodley Sep 22 #3
In Boston's case TommyT139 Sep 22 #13
Where the fuck is the trail and lane to the goddamn fucking Epstein Files, Orange Bastard? SoFlaBro Sep 22 #4
I read the title and badhair77 Sep 22 #5
Another lawsuit taxpayers will be forced to be on the wrong side of... pat_k Sep 22 #6
"demand for such infrastructure is growing in Republican and Trump-supporting municipalities, not just liberal cities," riversedge Sep 22 #7
He can't ride a bike but Joe Biden can. twodogsbarking Sep 22 #8
There you go! Bayard Sep 22 #11
Like Vance's head twodogsbarking Sep 22 #14
Trump is such a shit-as*!!! riversedge Sep 22 #9
He's just got to change everything in the country. Replacing the good, the enjoyable with sinkingfeeling Sep 22 #10
Next up: cancel Roundabouts maxsolomon Sep 22 #12
Oh FFS. Now we'll have to dodge them in traffic again. Wise, your highness, wise. Vinca Sep 22 #15
Quality of life can go SUCK IT! ffr Sep 22 #16
Trumps a Neanderthal. BradBo Sep 22 #18
Everyday, we go backwards n/t hibbing Sep 22 #19
Hey, he has got to pay back those bribes from his fossil fuel donors. love_katz Sep 22 #21
Dump hates anything that involves actual exercise. Crowman2009 Sep 22 #22

Walleye

(42,644 posts)
1. Can't wait till we get back in power and "pull back "all of the money Republicans voted to spend
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:10 PM
Sep 22

Seems like the actual legislation means nothing here

Harker

(16,900 posts)
17. It would be a difficult to find money after they've mishandled it.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:23 PM
Sep 22

I would expect a lot of shrugs and deception.

Lovie777

(20,495 posts)
2. Why pass a budget bill when all the present administration are going to do.....................
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:12 PM
Sep 22

is pocket tax payers money.

TommyT139

(1,954 posts)
13. In Boston's case
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:03 PM
Sep 22

... it's a neighborhood with a history of being majority people of color.

Eliminating these options not only makes bike deaths more likely, but reduces cheaper and healthier transportation options.

I don't know about the other cities, but it kinda makes me wonder.

SoFlaBro

(3,660 posts)
4. Where the fuck is the trail and lane to the goddamn fucking Epstein Files, Orange Bastard?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:16 PM
Sep 22

pat_k

(11,923 posts)
6. Another lawsuit taxpayers will be forced to be on the wrong side of...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:29 PM
Sep 22

If San Diego doesn't sue, they are nuts.

The part that sucks is that we pay for the regime's defense of these unlawful recissions.

Sending tax dollars to the 47 regime is hostile to the human race.

I think a revolt on paying 2025 taxes needs to be next on the agenda for the opposition. If you owe money, file, but stamp CANCELLED next to the amount due.

If enough of us just withheld payment three months and paid the 1.5% penalty, it would send a hell of a message. (And they can't get you for late filing if you file the form. They can only charge the 0.5% penalty on the amount due per month.)

riversedge

(78,000 posts)
7. "demand for such infrastructure is growing in Republican and Trump-supporting municipalities, not just liberal cities,"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:30 PM
Sep 22



.............The attacks on pedestrian safety and “active transportation networks” are ironic because demand for such infrastructure is growing in Republican and Trump-supporting municipalities, not just liberal cities, said Kevin Mills, vice president of policy at the nonprofit Rails to Trails Conservancy.

Despite rhetoric that associates non-car infrastructure development with liberal politics, “at the local level, there really isn’t that divide,” Mills said in an interview. Florida, he noted, is a red state with “extremely strong” plans to grow its network of mixed-use trails for bikes and pedestrians.

Transit planners increasingly have opted for alternative transit projects that can also alleviate automobile congestion, an approach Mills said is often more effective than car-focused projects. “These canceled projects may do that better,” he said.

The clawbacks mark the end of some of these projects, like the trail in Fairfield.

sinkingfeeling

(56,452 posts)
10. He's just got to change everything in the country. Replacing the good, the enjoyable with
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:45 PM
Sep 22

smog, danger, and gloom. What a future: while the rest of the world goes green and provides incentives to get rid of gas engines, TSF wants only fossil fuels.

ffr

(23,246 posts)
16. Quality of life can go SUCK IT!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:50 PM
Sep 22

Thanks to all those who voted for these goons and grifters! You're all fools and tools! Stop voting! All of our lives will be better.

love_katz

(3,168 posts)
21. Hey, he has got to pay back those bribes from his fossil fuel donors.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 22

Oh, excuse me. I meant to say ginormous contributions from the Oil and petroleum industries.
Same thing for dismantling the EPA, destroying the standards for clean air and water, removing all regulations that protect the public from pollution, etc.

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