Transportation Enhancements Under Attack

 

Pedestrian and bicycle paths help create recreational opportunities; promote healthy lifestyles which prevent disease and health issues; children safely walk and bike to school. Courtesy of Auburn Eagle

Recently, Transportation Enhancement (TE) program and other transportation programs that create pedestrian and bicycle paths and other transportation options for our communities have been under attack. Pedestrian and bicycle paths help families save money by spending less on automobile fuel; reduce congestion; reduce harmful carbon emissions.

TE projects also include landscape projects which provide a cost-efficient methods for communities to effectively deal with stormwater management, runoff pollution and other environmental mitigation issues.