{"id":76748,"date":"2026-07-30T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/us-push-to-defund-dei-bike-lanes-will-make-roads-less-safe-advocates-say\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:55:47","slug":"us-push-to-defund-dei-bike-lanes-will-make-roads-less-safe-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/us-push-to-defund-dei-bike-lanes-will-make-roads-less-safe-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US push to defund \u2018DEI bike lanes\u2019 will make roads less safe, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecDuffy\/status\/2074626934966034751\">posted on X<\/a> this month that he had redirected $1.73bn allocated for \u201cBiden-era DEI pet projects\u201d to \u201cAmerica\u2019s actual backbone: ROADS, BRIDGES, AND SHIPPING PORTS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/30\/bike-lanes-defund-trump-administration-dei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Trump administration\u2019s plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation &#8230; <a title=\"US push to defund \u2018DEI bike lanes\u2019 will make roads less safe, advocates say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/us-push-to-defund-dei-bike-lanes-will-make-roads-less-safe-advocates-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US push to defund \u2018DEI bike lanes\u2019 will make roads less safe, advocates say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}