bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways

bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways Sec. 124. (a) Chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “§ 217. Bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways “(a) To encourage the multiple use of highway rights-of-way, including the development, improvement, and use of bicycle transportation and the development and improvement of pedestrian walk-ways on or in conjunction with highway rights-of-way, the States may, on Federal-aid highway projects, include to the extent practicable, suitable, and feasible, the construction of separate or preferential bicycle lanes or paths, bicycle traffic control devices, shelters and parking facilities to serve bicycles and persons using bicycles, and pedestrian walkways in conjunction or connection with Federal-aid highways. Sums apportioned in accordance with paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (6) of section 104(b) of this title shall be available for bicycle projects and pedestrian walkways authorized under this section and such projects shall be located and designed pursuant to an overall plan which will provide due consideration for safety and contiguous routes. “(b) For all purposes of this title, a bicycle or pedestrian walkway project authorized by subsection (a) of this section shall be deemed to be a highway project, and the Federal share payable on account of such bicycle project, or pedestrian walkway shall be that provided in section 120 of this title. “(c) Funds authorized for forest highways, forest development roads and trails, public lands development roads and trails, park roads and trails, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways shall be available, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of bicycle and pedestrian routes in conjunction with such trails, roads, high ways, and parkways. “(d) No motorized vehicles shall be permitted on trails and walk-ways authorized under this section except for maintenance purposes and, when snow conditions and State or local regulations permit, snowmobiles. “(e) Not more than $40,000,000 of funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year may be obligated for projects authorized by subsections (a) and (c) of this section, and no State shall obligate more than $2,000,000 for such projects in any fiscal year.” (b) The analysis of chapter 2, title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: “217. Bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways.”