Please see the message below from our friend at the national level. This is something that needs to be done immediately. the vote is expected Wednesday, September 16!
Even if you do not read the rest of this message, please call Kohl's and Feingold's offices to ask them to save Transportation Enhancements. Madison and Dane County have benefited enormously from these funding sources. In fact, they are the primary source of funding for the trails and paths you may use every day. Robbie Webber Bike Walk Madison Steering Committee www.bikewalkmadison.org Join our group on Facebook! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff Miller <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM Subject: [People] Enhancements Under Attack in Senate - Please Act Now! To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Dear Alliance Leaders, Transportation Enhancements (TE) is under attack again. We expect Senator Coburn (R-OK) to offer two amendments to strike funding to TE in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill being debated on the Senate floor TOMORROW (9/16/09). The two Coburn amendments are S. Amendment 2370 and S. Amendment 2371. S. Amendment 2370 will prohibit funding for Transportation Enhancements if the Highway Trust Fund does not contain amounts sufficient to cover unfunded highway authorizations (and the Fund is bankrupt). S. Amendment 2371 will allow states to opt out of the 10% set aside rule that require states to spend at least 10% of their surface transportation funding on Transportation Enhancements. We would ask you to do the following: 1. Please send an alert to your grassroots. The League of American Bicyclists has an alert for grassroots at http://capwiz.com/lab/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14032801 . It provides phone numbers for their Senators as well as talking points. 2. We would also like to ask you as Leaders in the bicycle community to call or email your Senators’ offices with specific examples of local projects built using TE funds -- especially if you have examples where they attended a ribbon cutting or event. 3. Please send America Bikes <[email protected] > examples of really good transportation enhancement projects. We’ve gotten a request from Senators for examples of great projects in many states to help fight off this amendment. Please help join us in sounding the alarms and taking action today and tomorrow morning! Thanks! Jeff _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Jeffrey Miller President / CEO Alliance for Biking & Walking Formerly known as Thunderhead Alliance PO Box 65150, Washington, DC 20035 202-445-4415 cell [email protected] www.PeoplePoweredMovement.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
