The Bicyclist Safety Act has been signed by the governor, and will take effect July 1.
As the GOP loses support for its House transportation bill that would eliminate all federal funding for bike-ped and Safe Routes to School, they’re breaking it into three pieces to be debated and voted on separately.
We can restore bike-ped and Safe Routes to School by supporting the Cardin-Cochran and Klobuchar amendments. Rails to Trails Conservancy has provided a ready-to-go web form for you to contact your US Congress representative. Please take the time to do that now.
Belle Isle mountain bike skills park - courtesy of IMBA
New trails in Dogwood Dell, the Belle Isle mountain bike skills park, the Virginia Capital Trail approaches completion, and sharrows coming to The Fan — the Richmond Times-Dispatch has the story.
Although SB683, part of which contained some Sunday Hunting in Loudon county under the title of “Tick Control” in an effort to reduce the Lyme Disease up in that area, got the attention of the usual cast of anti-Sunday Hunting groups, it appears that it really was a sincere effort at “Tick Control” and not really a back door effort to institute Sunday Hunting.
In any case, Senate Ag Committee member Sen. John Watkins came up with a proposal whereby the bill would be “Continued Until the 2013 Session” and the Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries would come up with a plan for a pilot project for Loudon county which would work toward thinning out the deer in that area. On this basis the bill was unanimously Passed By. [continue reading…]
A very short report today, as both Champe & I went down to the GAB for the Senate Ag meeting this afternoon.
Luckily the only bill on the docket that we were interested in, SB571/State Park Campgrounds to set camping fees at or above the mean fee charged at private campgrounds, was heard 2nd, and Patron Sen. Reeves from Spotsylvania announced that he had been meeting with the Director of DCR, and understands that they are in agreement in not trying to unfairly compete with private campgrounds.
That being the case, he requested that the committee Pass By his bill indefinitely, which they promptly did.
Apparently this bill had resulted from [continue reading…]
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
As reported in Bud’s legislative update, officials had a chance to learn about the benefits that bike touring brings to communities. US Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis were in Richmond February 1, to hold a tourism town hall meeting in conjunction with the announcement of a $4M federal contribution to purchase additional acreage in Richmond National Battlefield Park. [continue reading…]
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