NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!
*BEFORE* NOVEMBER *****7TH*****!!!!
Come November 15th, Governor Doyle and his appointed cronies will
have long forgotten about you. *Long* forgotten. Politicians like
Doyle care about one and only one thing: staying in power. We the
little people only count to them on that one day. Now is the time to
use that leverage.
This means: get the letter out NOW. Tootsweet. Sooooobito! YESTERDAY!
-Mike
At 5:06 PM -0600 10/31/06, Dar Ward, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin wrote:
ACTION ALERT
Statewide Action Alert on Trail Funding:
The Badger State Trail, along with 91 other bicycle/pedestrian
projects in communities throughout the state will go unfunded by the
Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Trails, paths, and
lanes will not be built because of a funding shortfall.
Much of the funding shortfall is because the state only spends about
30% of the funds that the federal government designates for
Transportation Enhancements. The state could chose to spend over $30
million every two years on these projects, but instead recently only
provided $9.8 million for the same period. The WisDOT instead uses
the funding for other projects like highways. In recent years, the
WisDOT has worked to add some token amounts back to the
Transportation Enhancement program through a program called Surface
Transportation Program-Discretionary (STP-D), but those efforts were
eliminated by the Joint Finance Committee in the state budget
process.
The 2005-2007 total budget for the WisDOT was $5.8 billion.
Transportation Enhancements in Wisconsin amounted to less than 0.2%
of the transportation budget.
What can you do?
Before November 15th, send a letter to the Secretary of
Transporation asking that Transportation Enhancements be funded at
the full 10% of the Surface Transportation funding (or about $15-$18
million PER YEAR)
Frank Busalacchi, Secretary
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Hill Farms State Transportation Building
4802 Sheboygan Avenue
P.O. Box 7910
Madison, WI 53707-7910
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(608) 266-1114
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