The idea behind the project is that active transportation and recreation options are not always easy available to low-income communities.

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One of the key goals of the trail upgrade is to create safe options for active transportation by improving lighting, traffic controls and other measures that have been shown to increase pedestrian safety and reduce injuries and deaths.

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He is an acknowledged expert in the area of federal infrastructure budgeting and finance, having had an active role in the financing of each of the last three comprehensive surface transportation reauthorization bills dating back to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

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With improved transportation, the need for company towns largely disappeared, though communities built for oil rig workers are still active today.

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