REFERENCE GUIDE TO FEDERAL AND MARYLAND. STATE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN LAWS AND. POLICIES

An MDOT document:

As interest in bicycling and walking increases in Maryland so has the need to understand laws and policies that provide the foundation for developing a well integrated non-motorized transportation network.

Federal transportation policy calls for mainstreaming non-motorized transportation. Specifically the policy promotes increasing non-motorized transportation to include at least a 15% of all trips and to simultaneously reduce the number of transportation systems and facilities .

?????SAY WHAT?????
Shouldn't that be reducing fatalities? (Read more for the FHWA rendering.)
Continuing...

They also require to consider a range of projects and strategies that will increase safety of the transportation system for non-motorized users. TEA-21

MDOT: <a href="http://www.mdot.state.md.us/Planning/Bicycle/fed%20and%20state%20ref%20guide.pdf">http://www.mdot.state.md.us/Planning/Bicycle/fed%20and%20state%20ref%20guide.pdf</a>;

TEA-21 expired on September 30, 2003 so what is MDOT doing in 2007 quoting something that expired in 2003???

Per FHWA

Federal transportation policy is to increase nonmotorized transportation to at least 15 percent of all trips and to simultaneously reduce the number of nonmotorized users killed or injured in traffic crashes by at least 10 percent. This policy, which was adopted in 1994 as part of the National Bicycling and Walking Study, remains a high priority for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). SAFETEA-LU continued to provide the funding opportunities, planning processes, and policy language by which States and metropolitan areas can achieve this ambitious national goal.
<a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bikeped/bp-guid.htm">http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bikeped/bp-guid.htm</a>;