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Local Motion and CATMA push active-transportation steps: safe passing law, TDM expansion, and school bike education
Summary
Speakers from Local Motion and CATMA told the Senate Transportation Committee that low-cost street-safety fixes, stronger transportation demand management (TDM) for employers, and restored funding for school and e-bike programs would expand options and safety for walking, biking and rolling across Vermont.
Local bicycle and pedestrian advocates and the Chittenden Area Transportation Management Association (CATMA) told the Senate Transportation Committee on Feb. 25 that a mix of low-cost policy changes, employer-focused demand-management programs and restored program funding would increase safe walking and biking and reduce reliance on cars.
“Transportation is a really significant part of that work,” Katie Gallagher of the Transportation for Vermonters coalition told senators, introducing presenters from CATMA and Local Motion. Jonathan Weber, programs director at Local Motion, highlighted recent statutory changes to “vulnerable user” rules and the safe-passing requirement, noting that the legislature had struck the word “recommended” from the prior language and that the revised statute now…
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