Comments on: $5 million dedicated to Bicycling in Delaware — ready to match with federal funds http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/ Blog for bikeleague Tue, 21 May 2013 20:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: A Blog Post Full of Government Gibberish or, In Praise of Bureaucrats | Bike Delaware http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-35086 A Blog Post Full of Government Gibberish or, In Praise of Bureaucrats | Bike Delaware Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:30:05 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-35086 [...] General Assembly did something it had never done before. It voted a completely unprecedented $5,000,000 for state bike routes. With $5,000,000 in state money for bicycling, suddenly Delaware was in a position to access [...]

]]> By: Delaware General Assembly Votes Millions For Bicycling | Bike Delaware http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-35044 Delaware General Assembly Votes Millions For Bicycling | Bike Delaware Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:12:19 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-35044 [...] See League of American Bicyclists blog post HERE. [...]

]]> By: James Wilson http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-34779 James Wilson Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:52:12 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-34779 The $5M million in state bike route funds can provide the 20% state match for TIP projects, with the 80% balance coming from federal programs like TE/STP and CMAQ.

Our first test of that came this past Thursday, when the Technical Advisory Committee of one of our local MPOs voted to add a bike/ped project to the TIP. $120,000 for the project came from the $5M in state bike route funds. But $480,000 will come from federal matching funds.

This sets a good precedent for similarly leveraging the remaining $4,880,000.

On the Joe Biden comment, we would have loved to have had Joe’s help, but he wasn’t involved. The critical leadership came instead from Senator Bob Venables and Governor Jack Markell (the only Governor to ever speak at a National Bike Summit).

On the rescission question, the answer is that the $5M in state bike route money put us in an extremely strong position to argue that bike-eligible federal programs should be protected from rescission. The FHWA released those numbers last week. Not only were STP and CMAQ not cut disproportionally, they were protected *completely*. $0 rescissions from either.

Pretty cool.

]]> By: Andrew J Besold LCI#2682 http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-34614 Andrew J Besold LCI#2682 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:59:11 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-34614 Huh? What?

New Jersey dedicates several million dollars of state funds every year to bike/ped projects but I never heard of us getting matching federal monies!

What’s the deal?!?!

]]> By: Dennis Allgeier http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-34613 Dennis Allgeier Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:09:06 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-34613 Funny how Delaware is the state that Vice President Joe Biden is from-not a coincident now is it???

]]> By: Khal Spencer http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/07/5-million-dedicated-to-bicycling-in-delaware-ready-to-match-with-federal-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-34575 Khal Spencer Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:14:58 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=5626#comment-34575 Darren

By providing match funds for Federal funds in advance, does this help ensure that Delaware will not be returning as much bike-ped funding in the coming rescission cycle?

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