Wkoppa
Member
Just The Facts
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is not the Georgia Department of Motorized Transportation. As such (as in other states) they have responsibility for administering programs for bicyclist and pedestrians on or about the roadways thru the TAP funding (Transportation Alternative Program) http://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Funding/Documents/TAP/TAPApplicationandGuidance.pdf . Some states are better than others at this and the program deals with widening shoulders, building separate pathways and non-motorized lanes and streetscapes. We just used the fund, and other monies, to build a non-motorized bridge across I-75. Its all very much stuff they have been doing in Michigan, and other states, for the last 20 years.
I am not much of a bicyclist but a look back in history https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/15/cyclists-paved-way-for-roads shows that it was the bicycle groups that lobbied to get the roads paved. It was not the cage drivers.
Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
#71,449
Actually, I dont see how they have any "right" to be on a public road as they dont pay any taxes to be there...…...
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is not the Georgia Department of Motorized Transportation. As such (as in other states) they have responsibility for administering programs for bicyclist and pedestrians on or about the roadways thru the TAP funding (Transportation Alternative Program) http://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Funding/Documents/TAP/TAPApplicationandGuidance.pdf . Some states are better than others at this and the program deals with widening shoulders, building separate pathways and non-motorized lanes and streetscapes. We just used the fund, and other monies, to build a non-motorized bridge across I-75. Its all very much stuff they have been doing in Michigan, and other states, for the last 20 years.
I am not much of a bicyclist but a look back in history https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/15/cyclists-paved-way-for-roads shows that it was the bicycle groups that lobbied to get the roads paved. It was not the cage drivers.
Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
#71,449