Could you please define FHWA for the non-wonks among us? Thanks.
Dave
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> From: Robbie Webber <[email protected]>
>To: "Ross, Arthur" <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:46 AM
>Subject: Re: [Bikies] Southwest Trail - Missing Link section - complaint filed.
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>The state may consider a multi-use path (aka, "bike path") a highway, but
>obviously the FHWA does not, as evidenced by the fact that they allowed Dane
>County and others to charge a fee to use the path. There was a lawsuit about
>the fee charged on the Cap City Trail - the Dane County/Fitchburg portion, not
>the Madison portion, which has always been free - and it was even appealed
>when the first ruling came down. I can't remember who the plaintiff was, but I
>don't think it was an individual. WisDOT, maybe?
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>Because federal funding was used to pay for the trail, and FHWA rules do not
>allow tolls on (new) highways paid for with federal funding (older toll roads
>were grandfathered in), the position of the plaintiff was that a toll could
>not be charged on the Cap City Trail. There were also federal definitions of a
>highway that clearly said things like businesses and residences being accessed
>from the highway, connections to other highways, etc. All of which the Cap
>City Trail has. Yet the ruling was that Dane County and others could indeed
>charge a toll to use the highway.
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>Robbie Webber
>Transportation Policy Analyst
>State Smart Transportation Initiative
>www.ssti.us
>608-263-9984 (o)
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>[email protected]
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>On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Ross, Arthur <[email protected]> wrote:
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>A bike path is indeed a street. A street is a highway, a highway is any
>public way open to vehicular traffic, a bicycle is a vehicle, a bike path is a
>public way open to vehicles, ergo a path is a street.
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