BY SARAH MIRK
Exciting news confirming that, indeed, biking is for red-blooded Real Americans!
Obama's Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced last week that the government will restart a 1980s plan to build major bike routes across the whole country. Check out the whole route map here. As GOOD notes, the first two stretches of the U.S. Bicycle Route System were supposed to run from Maine to Florida and from Virginia to Oregon. But only a couple tiny chunks of the plan ever got built before it was put on the shelf to gather dust in the eighties...[continued]
