Done From: James Lamm Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:14 PM To: Emily Beddingfield ; Kevin Whalen ; CyclistsOfWilson COWs Subject: [COWs] Fwd: Deja Vu: House Aims to Eliminate Local Funds for Biking and Walking
Please contact your Washington representatives by clicking on the action center at the bottom of this message to let your representatives know that we want to continue Federal funding for Biking and Walking. Thanks. James Lamm Emily/Kevin, You might want to forward this message to the rest of the Bike/Ped Board. James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: League of American Bicyclists <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:44 PM Subject: Deja Vu: House Aims to Eliminate Local Funds for Biking and Walking To: James Lamm <[email protected]> Deja Vu: House Aims to Eliminate Local Funds for Biking and Walking Take Action! Ask Your Member of Congress to Protect Funding in the Transportation Bill The U.S. House and Senate are negotiating right now to produce a final federal transportation bill and 20 years of gains on biking, walking and Safe Routes to School could be eliminated. Only a strong show of support from people like you can make sure this doesn’t happen. Please act TODAY to protect federal funding for local biking and walking. In March, the Senate passed a bill with bipartisan support that included the Cardin-Cochran agreement, which allows local governments and school systems to access much-needed funds to for biking and walking projects and programs. But the House would prefer to get rid of biking and walking funding by giving states the chance to ‘opt out’ of this funding pot completely — and take away local governments’ ability to access federal funds for small transportation projects. If the House gets its way, your local governments won’t have access to funds to build the sidewalks, bike lanes and bikeways that make streets safer for all of us. We can’t let Congress eliminate local control. We need the Senate conferees to stand strong behind their bi-partisan, bike-friendly agreement, and the House to stand down from their attempt to eliminate local access to these federal funds. Please act now, even if you have taken action on this issue already. Fill in your zip code, below, or, if you're seeing this in an email, click here to go to our action center. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please click here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en.
