Stoneridge Properties
This was sent from another biking news feed. I like the idea helping direct
some tax dollars to helping us folks on 2 wheels.
Mitch
Dear cycling friends,
I'm asking you to send two quick emails - RIGHT AWAY -- to your United
States Senators to urge them to maintain federal funding for investment in
biking and walking facilities. Please click on this link now, enter your zip
code, and follow the instructions -
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7093/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=810
7. It will take just a few minutes and will make a huge difference in
sustaining the 20-year national commitment to modest and effective
investment in active transportation like biking and walking.
As background, Adventure Cycling and the America Bikes coalition have been
tracking action on a new federal transportation bill. Several leaders in
Congress, especially Senator Tom Coburn (OK), have said that they want to
eliminate a program called Transportation Enhancements (TE), which funds
biking and walking infrastructure. These Members of Congress want to kill
the TE program, despite its popularity and cost-effectiveness in building
new bike facilities and despite research which shows that the program
generates more jobs per million dollars invested than regular road projects.
Finally, the TE program makes up less than 2 percent of all federal
transportation funding (while biking and walking make up well over 10
percent of all American trips).
To keep improving cycling and bike travel conditions across our great land,
we need your help to maintain Congressional support for the TE program and
bike/walk infrastructure investment. Again, please click on this link
(http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7093/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=81
07), take a few minutes, and make a difference for cycling in the USA.
Thanks for reading this, for taking immediate action, and for sharing this
with all your cycling friends.
Pedaling forward,
Jim Sayer
Executive Director
Adventure Cycling Association
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