Led By Fools<p>WA may be getting new highways — for bicyclists</p><p>While Washington State has been struggling to fund most of its major transportation projects, the chair of the state Senate Transportation Committee says financing a statewide bikeway system is cheap enough to pull off. The project would connect our existing major bike paths across the state—the Burke-Gilman, Palouse to Cascades, Eastrail, and Spokane’s Centennial—for less than $50 million over two years. It’s orders of magnitude cheaper than car infrastructure AND better for our environment. </p><p>Unpaywalled link to Seattle Times article<br><a href="https://archive.ph/1i8I5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/1i8I5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seabikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seabikes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattlebike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seattlebike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattlebikeblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seattlebikeblog</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BurkeGilman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurkeGilman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WALeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WALeg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bikeway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bikeway</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bicycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bicycling</span></a></p>