President Donald Trump's transportation department has been pulling back grants already announced for recreational trails and bicycle lanes, telling local officials their projects fail to promote road capacity or are "hostile to motor vehicles."
Video above: Albuquerque's rail trail funding cut by Trump administration
The department recently sent letters to local governments in at least six states — Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Mexico — informing them it was withdrawing money awarded under the $1.1 trillion infrastructure law former President Joe Biden signed in 2021.
The reversals are among the clearest signals yet of the drastic shift from the Biden administration's emphasis on other kinds of transportation, such as shared transit and biki