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LaHood's Bicycle Policy Hits Potholes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is a weekend bicyclist, and he might consider keeping his head down and his helmet on. That's because there's a backlash brewing over his new bicycling policy.

LaHood says the government is going to give bicycling, and walking, too, the same importance as automobiles in transportation planning and the selection of projects for federal money.

The former Illinois congressman quietly announced the "sea change" in transportation policy last month. He wrote in his government blog that "this is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."

That's vaulted LaHood to superstar status in the bicycling world, but not everyone is convinced. A blog for the National Association of Manufacturers, for example, called the policy "dumb and irresponsible."

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