*Ask Your Senator to Co-Sponsor the Safe Routes to School Reauthorization Bill*
Kris Talley
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Subject: Transportation Authorization
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:02:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Walter Finch <bikel...@bikeleague.org>
Reply-To: Walter Finch <bikel...@bikeleague.org>
To: Kris Talley <kta...@umich.edu>
On May 21, 2009, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Richard Burr (R-NC) ,
Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Susan Collins (R-ME)
joined together to introduce the /Safe Routes to School Program
Reauthorization Act /(S. 1156). This is
an exciting and important step forward as these five diverse Senators
have agreed to champion the federal Safe Routes to School program. /To
get more Senators to step up as leaders on Safe Routes to School/, */we
need your help/*. Your Senators need to hear from you about the
importance of growing and strengthening the Safe Routes to School
program in the next transportation bill.
Please take just five minutes to contact your two Senators to ask them
to show their support for the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program by
co-sponsoring the legislation. Just type in your zip code to be
directed to the appropriate message-either a thank you if your
Senator(s) is already a cosponsor or a "please co-sponsor" message if
they are not. A sample message is provided, but we encourage you to
personalize it with a sentence or two about your local SRTS needs and
interests.
*Background on the Legislation*
S. 1156 would expand funding for SRTS to $600 million per year, include
high schools, simplify regulatory compliance to improve project
delivery, and strengthen research and evaluation. All of these changes
will make SRTS grants more widely available, and help more schools and
communities across the country make it safer for children to walk and
bicycle to school and get into healthier, greener habits.
For more details on the legislation, including a summary of the bill's
provisions, a list of supporting organizations, and the text of the
legislation, please visit
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/national/5890/5904/254381
Thank you so much!!