I encourage the authors of this funding bill to consider the need to balance investments in bicycle facilities (bike lanes, bike paths) with equal investments in bicycle education.  In spite of a proliferation of bike lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area, I continue to witness poor bicycling behavior (wrong side riding, riding at night without lights, running traffic lights, poor interaction with motor vehicles, etc.).  The instruction that people get in primary school amounts to little more than the vague admonition to "Ride right and obey the laws", plus an occasional bicycle rodeo put on by local police, which is superficial and doesn't leave people with a core of cycling skills and knowledge.  We spend a lot of money  on training and registering motor vehicle drivers - it makes sense that bicycling on public streets requires at least some similar level of training for safety.  At present, school kids get more hours spent being taught flag football than being taught cycling skills, which can reduce the substantial fatality rate in those age groups.  I recommend that funding be allocated for cycling safety training of children and adults at the local level.  A national organization, the League of American Bicyclists, has a nation-wide network of several hundred certified instructors that are actively training cyclists in the real-world skills needed to safely use the bicycling infrastructure (see .http://www.bikeleague.org/educenter/education.htm).  Funding for local municipalities to host a League-sponsored education program or similar 3rd party program would be invaluable in educating bicyclists to be safe users of the road.  In closing, when you are funding bicycle facilities, be sure to fund bicycle education to make sure those facilities are being used safely and effectively.