Hello all. Thanks, Matt, for this action alert.
Attached please find a summary I wrote about Transport 2020. I wrote it after the completion of phase one of the study in 2002. I updated it in the past 2 weeks to include information about the recently completed phase 2 of the study. As Matt indicates, we've been getting a lot of Vicki McKenna-inspired e-mail on this topic. I'll dig one out of the archives and forward it to bikies to show you the quality of the rhetoric. At first we got simple one-liners like "stop the silly trains" (my personal favorite); more recently we've been getting soliloquies on the virtues of an automobile-only transportation system. All my best, Al Matano > Bikies, > > If the amount of fuss we caused at the State level is any indication, a > lot of you care deeply about finding for bicycling. It turns out there > is a great opportunity to voice your support for bicycle funding right > here in Dane County. > > Here is how you can help: > > 1) E-mail your county supervisors in support of the Regional Transit > Authority proposal. http://www.countyofdane.com/coboard/supervisors.asp > > 2) Make an appointment for Thursday, August 16th at 7:00pm to attend the > Dane county supervisors meeting. > > 3) Reply to this e-mail if you plan to attend. I will put together some > useful background information for people who wish to speak at the County > Supervisors meeting. If you have web links to good sources for > background, please share them! > > 4) Keep September 4th open - that's the Madison City Council Meeting on > the same topic. > > > You can read some details at the 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Web Site: > > http://www.1kfriends.org/ > > > Basically, the Regional Transit Authority (or RTA) that is being talked > about will add a 0.5% to the local sales tax, and dedicate a portion to > funding bicycling projects. Given the reluctance at the State level to > fully fund bicycling according to federal recommendations, the RTA and > the tax are sorely needed. Yet, some anti-rail/anti-bike forces are > starting to rally against the RTA. The RTA plan as I read it really > helps everybody and it would be a shame to let the anti-smart > transportation folks win the argument. > > Thanks to all! > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
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