Federal Complete Streets Amendment offered--your support needed
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Sun, 05/08/2005 - 10:47pm
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Senator Harkin of Iowa has offered a "Complete Streets" amendment to the federal SAFETEA legislation currently working its way through Congress.
The amendment would:
Missouri advocacy groups are asking supporters of the Harkin Amendment to call or e-mail both Missouri senators before 5:00pm Tuesday, May 10. The amendment is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005.
Contact information for Missouri senators:
Senator Harkin of Iowa has offered a "Complete Streets" amendment to the federal SAFETEA legislation currently working its way through Congress.
The amendment would:
- Establish that each State Department of Transportation adopt a "Complete Streets" policy, based on FHWA's guidance of February 2000, to fully integrate the needs and safety of all road users into the design and operation of streets and highways
- Adopt the goals of the 1994 National Bicycling and Walking Study to increase bicycling and walking and reduce motor vehicle crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians
- Ensure that adequate research is done to support and evaluate these goals, and
- Establish that Metropolitan Planning Organizations with a population of more than 200,000 shall integrate bicycling and walking into their planning and programming activities in a variety of ways
Missouri advocacy groups are asking supporters of the Harkin Amendment to call or e-mail both Missouri senators before 5:00pm Tuesday, May 10. The amendment is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005.
Contact information for Missouri senators:
Missouri Senator Kit BondA fact sheet about the amendment can be found here:
Email: http://bond.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm
Phone: (202)224-5721
Missouri Senator Jim Talent
Email: http://talent.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm
Phone: 202-224-6154
Fax: 202-228-1518
(Senators from other states can be found here: https://www.senate.gov/ )
http://www.americabikes.org/Harkin%20bill.asp
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