Act Now: Keep Bicycling Money in Your State
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Your help is needed now to protect funding for bicycle projects in
Wisconsin. The federal government is requiring state Departments of
Transportation (DOT) to return a percentage of the money they were awarded
for transportation projects in SAFETEA-LUthe $286.5 billion federal
transportation law passed in 2005. The bicycling community worked hard to
get a portion of this money for bicycling projects, much of it in the
category of "Transportation Enhancements" funding. Now, the U.S. DOT is
requiring state DOTs to return transportation money already awarded, a
process called rescissions.
A recently released accounting of 2006 rescissions shows that bicycling
lost several hundred million dollars of potential fundingmost of it
unobligated, unspent money from the previous (2001) federal transportation
law. The 2007 rescissions threaten current funding. We can't let this
happen! In Wisconsin, the rescission amounts to more than 80% of the money
that was awarded, the most of any state in the nation.
You must act fast. State DOTs will make their decisions by April 18.
Here's what you need to do:
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here to customize the form letter drafted by the League of American
Bicyclists.
* If you have time, mention projects in your state that Transportation
Enhancements have helped fund.
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here to search for projects in your state.
For more information about Transportation Enhancements,
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here.
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