Photo by rkimpeljr via flickr. It may seem like an, “Oh, duh,” with the government the last to confirm the news, but a 15-year report released by the U.S. Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration shows a 25% increase in trips by bike and walking since 2001. The National Bicycling and Walking Study: 15-Year Status Report has been following the action since 1994, and the news is (mostly) good – in the U.S. we’ve reversed a trend of decreasing trips by biking and walking. And the Obama Administration spent $1.2 billion on bike and walk programs in 2009… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biking, Walking Gets More Bucks, Keeps Going Up
