FABB urges local riders to respond to the League of American Bicyclists’ urgent call to action: national bike lane funding is at risk. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has ordered a freeze on all discretionary grants that fund bike lanes, green infrastructure, and safety projects—potentially canceling critical improvements that have already been approved.
If this freeze holds, many projects aimed at making our streets safer and more accessible may never break ground. Some projects already in progress will stop immediately, leaving dangerous streets unchanged and communities without the infrastructure they need.
This decision threatens the very heart of multimodal transportation progress, putting politics above local needs. But we can fight back. LAB has prepared a petition to demand that the government keep its promise of safer roads for Americans.
Tell Secretary Duffy and the DOT that these projects matter. Thousands of voices speaking up for safe, sustainable, community-driven transportation can make a difference.
Sign the petition today!
Let’s stand together for safer streets and multimodal options in Fairfax and beyond!
Petition Text: The stated priority of Secretary Duffy’s Department of Transportation is safety, to keep all traveling Americans safe. Millions of Americans use bike lanes to commute to work, to drop off their kids at school, or to pick up groceries. Projects that build bike lanes are common sense investments in safety for everyone in the community.
To keep that promise of safer roads to Americans, the Department of Transportation must ensure federal funding for local projects – including bike lanes – continues without pause.
Halting work on these safety projects will only hurt communities.
We, the undersigned, implore Secretary Sean Duffy and the U.S. Department of Transportation to ensure there is no interruption in the funding to communities’ projects that will make their roads and streets safer and better for everyone.
