Wisconsin Bicycle Federation: Blasts trail killing amendment
Contact Dave Cieslewicz (chess LEV ich) at 608-698-4971 The Wisconsin Bicycle Federation is asking legislators to eliminate a state budget provision that could stop popular recreational trail projects in their tracks. The measure was slipped into the 19-page omnibus transportation budget amendment passed on a party line vote last week. It would prohibit local jurisdictions and the state Department of Transportation from using condemnation (also known as eminent domain) for the purpose of establishing or extending recreational trails, bicycle ways or lanes or pedestrian ways. “Joint Finance takes out all the governor’s policy provisions at the beginning of the budget