Potentially it would. In terms of the natural areas we work with, my expertise is specifically in the park spaces and the natural areas and not so much in transportation planning, but I know that having active transportation—bike routes and things like that—through natural areas has a double value in that people have an alternate way to transit to work or home and they also get to experience a natural environment while they're there, away from a busy street. Any way the federal government can help develop better transportation planning, obviously, would be great.
On October 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.