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Please check out the link below. Complete Streets will mandate that all new or redesigned roadways must accommodate all modes of transportation in addition to automobiles. If its important to you, please forward it to anyone you know that cares. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Waters Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:54 PM To: 'NC Active Transportation Alliance' Subject: [ncata] Please take 30 seconds to demonstrate support for Complete Streets and ped safety ** Please forward ** Everyone please take 30-seconds to click on the link below to add your name to the petition asking United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Obama's DOT chief) to support Complete Streets. As a result of overwhelming support in the past couple days, Secretary LaHood has just agreed to meet with representatives of Transportation for America (T4A) to discuss pedestrian safety in relation to national transportation policy. Now T4A wants 1,000 more signatures by midnight tomorrow (Friday) to demonstrate widespread support for real change. Please forward the email below to anyone you know who cares about pedestrian safety and who might take 30 seconds to add their name to the petition. http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/t/3224/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=570 -Steve --Steven N. WatersRaleigh, North Carolina, USAMobile: [email protected]http://www.livingstreets.com/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Big news Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:08:09 -0500 (EST) From: Ilana Preuss, Transportation for America <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Steven, Since I wrote you on Monday, your response in demanding safer streets has helped to create a wonderful opportunity: Our team has just scheduled a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss pedestrian safety. It's a great chance to get the administration on board with addressing a glaring problem with our streets. We'll be delivering all the signatures to the "Demand Safer Streets!" petition in that meeting - including yours! - but we need 1,000 more signatures by midnight tomorrow to really make a big impression. You can help by asking your friends to sign on too. It's easy - just visit our site to send an online postcard that will get their attention. I've included an example of the postcard below. (If you can't see the image, click here to view it on our website.) Thank you again for helping to make our streets safer. Sincerely, Ilana Preuss National Outreach Director Transportation for America ------ SAMPLE POSTCARD ------ If a jumbo jet filled with 400 passengers dropped from the sky every month, you can bet it would get serious federal attention. Well, that's about many pedestrians are killed on U.S. streets every month - but until now it hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves. The good news is that we can fight the problem at the root with strong leadership and more resources from the White House for "Complete Streets" - policies that will ensure that streets are designed with all road users in mind, not just motorists. Join me in asking U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to make safer streets a priority! http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/t/3224/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=570 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NC Active Transportation Alliance" 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/ncata?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- You received this message because you foolishly subscribed to the Gyro email group. To post useless drivel to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] We love reading 3000 line messages so please don't bother trimming your replies.
