|
Fwd: BikeLeague E-Newsletter February 25, 2005
|
Ed Bolton
|
Feb 25, 2005 16:14 PST
|
--=====================_52509574==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
****message start****
LAB news is forwarded.
This is the LAST ONE I'm sending to the Topica list. The future is at the
new place, ns-@nscyc.org . See Mike Habich's e-mail of a few days ago or
hit the website to learn how to get on board. I look forward to seeing
y'all over there.
Ed
| | Vol. 5, No 6
Welcome to the League of American Bicyclists BikeLeague News. To learn
more about the League, visit
<http://www.bikeleague.org>www.bikeleague.org. Please forward to anyone
who may be interested.
Bicycle Commuter Act and Conserve By Bicycling Reintroduced in Congress
The bicycling agenda is alive and well in the halls of Congress with less
than three weeks to go before the National Bike SummitŪ (March 16-18 in
Washington, DC). In addition to transportation reauthorization, bicycling
commuter and conserve by bike legislation are once again being considered
in the 109th Congress.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Foley (R-FL) have reintroduced
the Bicycle Commuter Act (H.R. 807). It is anticipated that Senators
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) will reintroduce the Senate
companion measure prior to the Summit. The Bicycle Commuter Act would
allow an employer to add bicycling to the definition of transportation
fringe benefit in the tax code. The transportation fringe benefit was
added as an incentive to get more people to use alternative modes of
transportation for commuting. The goal is to reduce traffic congestion,
pollution and wear and tear on the roads. Under H.R. 807, employers could
offer monthly cash reimbursement of up to $100 to an employee who commutes
to work by bicycle, providing a tax benefit to the employer and helping
defray commuting expenses for the bicyclist.
In addition, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) has introduced H.R. 722,
the Securing Transportation Energy Efficiency for Tomorrow Act of 2005.
This bill also includes language very similar to H.R. 807, but with a $75
a month cap. Furthermore, H.R. 722 includes conserve by bicycling
language, comparable to the language in last year s energy bill. This
language would provide $10 million to establish a pilot program with up to
10 geographically dispersed projects to use education and marketing and
provide facilities to convert motor vehicle trips to bike trips as an
energy savings measure. For more information, visit
<http://www.bikeleague.org>http://www.bikeleague.org or
<http://thomas.loc.gov>http://thomas.loc.gov.
Reproduction permitted. Proper citation appreciated. You are currently
subscribed to bikeleaguenews as: EBOL-@TTLC.NET
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
leave-bikeleagu-@titan.sparklist.com
|
***message end***
--=====================_52509574==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<html>
****message start****<br>
<br>
LAB news is forwarded.<br>
<br>
This is the LAST ONE I'm sending to the Topica list. The future is
at the new place, ns-@nscyc.org . See Mike Habich's e-mail of a few
days ago or hit the website to learn how to get on board. I look
forward to seeing y'all over there.<br>
<br>
Ed<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="right">
<font size=1 color="#0078BD"><b>Vol. 5, No 6</b></font><br>
</div>
<font size=2>Welcome to the League of American Bicyclists BikeLeague
News. To learn more about the League, visit
<a href="http://www.bikeleague.org">www.bikeleague.org</a>. Please
forward to anyone who may be interested.</font><font color="#0078BD">
<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2 color="#0078BD"><b><a name="1"></a>Bicycle Commuter Act and
Conserve By Bicycling Reintroduced in Congress<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>The bicycling agenda is alive and well in the halls of
Congress with less than three weeks to go before the National Bike
SummitŪ (March 16-18 in Washington, DC). In addition to transportation
reauthorization, bicycling commuter and conserve by bike legislation are
once again being considered in the 109th Congress.<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Foley (R-FL)
have reintroduced the Bicycle Commuter Act (H.R. 807). It is anticipated
that Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) will reintroduce
the Senate companion measure prior to the Summit. The Bicycle Commuter
Act would allow an employer to add bicycling to the definition of
transportation fringe benefit in the tax code. The transportation fringe
benefit was added as an incentive to get more people to use alternative
modes of transportation for commuting. The goal is to reduce traffic
congestion, pollution and wear and tear on the roads. Under H.R. 807,
employers could offer monthly cash reimbursement of up to $100 to an
employee who commutes to work by bicycle, providing a tax benefit to the
employer and helping defray commuting expenses for the bicyclist.<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>In addition, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) has
introduced H.R. 722, the Securing Transportation Energy Efficiency for
Tomorrow Act of 2005. This bill also includes language very similar to
H.R. 807, but with a $75 a month cap. Furthermore, H.R. 722 includes
conserve by bicycling language, comparable to the language in last year s
energy bill. This language would provide $10 million to establish a pilot
program with up to 10 geographically dispersed projects to use education
and marketing and provide facilities to convert motor vehicle trips to
bike trips as an energy savings measure. For more information, visit
<a href="http://www.bikeleague.org">http://www.bikeleague.org</a> or
<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov">http://thomas.loc.gov</a>.<br>
</font><br>
Reproduction permitted. Proper citation appreciated. You are currently
subscribed to bikeleaguenews as: EBOL-@TTLC.NET<br>
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
leave-bikeleagu-@titan.sparklist.com </blockquote><br>
<br>
***message end***<br>
</html>
--=====================_52509574==_.ALT--
|
|
 |
|
