CYCLISTS & PEDESTRIANS TAKE NOTE - TRANSPORTATION BILL
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Please contact your Congressional Representative if you have an interest in this. You may click on the link below, then click on the Take Action button, and enter your zip code. An email addressed to your Congressman will come up.
http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2012/01/horrible-surface-transportation-bill-unveiled-today-bicycle-programs-eliminated/
A part of the article:
The bill (soon to be available on transportation.house.gov) reverses 20 years of progress by:
• destroying Transportation Enhancements by making it optional;
• repealing the Safe Routes to School program, reversing years of progress in creating safe ways for kids to walk and ride bicycles to school;
• allowing states to build bridges without safe access for pedestrians and bicycles;
• eliminating bicycle and pedestrian coordinators in state DOTs; and
• eliminating language that insures that rumble strips “do not adversely affect the safety or mobility of bicyclists, pedestrians or the disabled.”
On Thursday, the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee will mark-up the bill and Representatives Petri (R-WI) and Johnson (R-IL) will sponsor an amendment that restores dedicated funding for Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School. Representatives Petri and Johnson can only be successful if everyone with a stake in safe sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways contacts their representative today.
http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2012/01/horrible-surface-transportation-bill-unveiled-today-bicycle-programs-eliminated/
A part of the article:
The bill (soon to be available on transportation.house.gov) reverses 20 years of progress by:
• destroying Transportation Enhancements by making it optional;
• repealing the Safe Routes to School program, reversing years of progress in creating safe ways for kids to walk and ride bicycles to school;
• allowing states to build bridges without safe access for pedestrians and bicycles;
• eliminating bicycle and pedestrian coordinators in state DOTs; and
• eliminating language that insures that rumble strips “do not adversely affect the safety or mobility of bicyclists, pedestrians or the disabled.”
On Thursday, the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee will mark-up the bill and Representatives Petri (R-WI) and Johnson (R-IL) will sponsor an amendment that restores dedicated funding for Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School. Representatives Petri and Johnson can only be successful if everyone with a stake in safe sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways contacts their representative today.
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