Trump's Secretary of Transportation orders review of the USDOT grant that Alameda already won

"U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered officials to stop action on all Biden-era discretionary grants to build bike lanes and other 'green infrastructure' so the agency can review the project for possible removal," reports Streetsblog.

"The focus of this review," the memo stated, "is to identify project scope and activities that are allocating funding to advance climate, equity and other priorities counter to the Administration's executive orders."

As a start, DOT heads are being asked to undertake a "project-by-project review" to identify proposals that include references to not only DEIA, but also grants "whose primary purpose is bicycle infrastructure." After the review, "project teams" will conduct a review to "flag any project ... for potential removal" if the projects involve an "equity analysis, green infrastructure, bicycle infrastructure [and] EV and/or EV-charging infrastructure."

That review would also flag projects whose purpose is to "improve the condition for environmental justice communities or actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions." While projects that have fully obligated their funds are not subject to the order, projects with partially obligated funds are.

The Streetsblog article references screenshots of the Secretary of Transportation's entire memo, as well as this response from Senator Ed Markey (Dem from Massachusetts):

Let’s be clear about the impact of this DOT memo: Pedestrians and cyclists are going to die

Alameda won a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant award fair and square from USDOT in September to improve Alameda's Lincoln Ave. It should just be a matter of finalizing the paperwork at this point. However, the Lincoln Ave project, as well as other projects throughout the East Bay, are now at risk.