If you care about creating better cycling conditions in America, please consider sending two emails ? right now ? to your United States Senators to urge them to maintain federal funding for investment in biking and walking facilities. Please click on this link, enter your zip code, and follow the instructions. It will take just a few minutes and will make a big difference in sustaining the 20-year national commitment to modest and effective investment in active transportation like biking and walking.As background, Adventure Cycling and the America Bikes coalition have been tracking action on a new federal transportation bill. Several leaders in Congress, especially Senator Tom Coburn (OK), have said that they want to eliminate a program called Transportation Enhancements (TE), which funds biking and walking infrastructure. These Members of Congress want to kill the TE program, despite its popularity and cost-effectiveness in building new bike facilities and despite research showing that the program generates more jobs per million dollars invested than regular road projects. Finally, the TE program makes up less than 2 percent of all federal transportation funding (while biking and walking make up well over 10 percent of all American trips).
To keep improving cycling and bike travel conditions across our great land, we need your help to maintain Congressional support for the TE program and bike/walk infrastructure investment. Again, please click on this link and make a difference for cycling in the USA.
Thanks for reading this, for taking immediate action, and for sharing this with all your cycling friends.
Photo Caption: Adventure Cycling's Colorado Family Fun Tour on the Glenwood Canyon Trail along the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs, CO. Thousands of great bike/walk facilities like this have been built with Transportation Enhancement dollars, now in jeopardy in the US Congress. Photo courtesy of Jim Sayer.
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JIM SAYER is executive director of Adventure Cycling Association.
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/09/act-now-save-national-cycling-resources.html
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