Philadelphia Bicycle News: PennDOT Shuffles Bike Ped Coordinator .
Oct-21-2008 Posted under Uncategorized
PennDOT Shuffles Bike Ped Coordinator Position
While Philadelphia has hired its first full time Bike Ped Coordinator, PennDOT’s Bike Ped Program appears to be in transition. Dave Bachman has been reassigned and the Bicycle Pedestrian Position has been stirred to Office of Design.The support for Bicycle Pedestrian program has been slowly eroding over the past few years. At one time Mr. Bachman had an assistant Patti Marshall, meanwhile it has been rumored that some rural district coordinators are only devoting a few hours a class to bike ped issues. Matt Bochanski who retired two days ago as the District 6 Coordinator
our region) once devoted up to 40% of his time to bike-ped issues but we have had very little interaction with current coordinator Steve Dunlap, who told us that his bicycle pedestrian hours will be curtailed.Perhaps most disturbing development is that this important side is now vacant, we sincerely hope that PENNDOT names an interim State Bike Ped Coordinator immediately. We remain optimistic that the reshuffling along with the miserable ranking from the
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