Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Restores $2 Million for Bike/Ped to State Budget

How many people can say that they turned $3,000 into $2 million? Kevin Hardman and the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin can.

How’d they do it? With a little help from Advocacy Advance, the partnership of the League and the Alliance for Biking & Walking that’s aimed at giving advocates, agency staff and public officials the tools and knowledge they need to tap into federal funding for biking and walking projects and programs. The Bicycle Federation used a $3,000 Advocacy Advance Rapid Respond grant to support its campaign to restore dedicated bicycle and pedestrian funds cut from the state budget. They were successful. Instead of zeroing out the bicycle and pedestrian line in the budget, the state will spend $2 million over the next two years on bicycle and pedestrian projects.

Read all about it on the Advocacy Advance blog!

Darren Flusche
League Policy Director

Flusche joined the League in April 2009 and has a B.A. in history from Syracuse University and a Masters of Public Administration with a concentration in public policy analysis from New York University.

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4 Responses to “Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Restores $2 Million for Bike/Ped to State Budget”

1. Link roundup: August 2 | Tucson Velo Says:
   August 2nd, 2011 at 8:40 am

   [...] Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Restores $2 Million for Bike/Ped to State Budget [...]

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   August 2nd, 2011 at 11:09 am

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3. Karen Lueken Says:
   August 2nd, 2011 at 2:09 pm

   It sounds like Wisconsin is starting to realize that there are different directions to head with Biking/Walking Communities. Not only does it help the environment, exercise, building “different” types of communities, not to mention the fact that the Paved Roads won’t wear as fast and won’t need repairs as fast. After all, we’re not working remember?

4. jan Says:
   August 3rd, 2011 at 5:36 pm

   Where do we purchase the cool bike pins? Let’s spread these all over the country~
   Many thanks!!