The entire process will take only five minutes... but, failure to act right now could set us back 20 years!

Primary Talking Point: To make this process as easy as possible, consider using the bullet point below as your primary talking point:

• I want my Congressman to speak with House colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  Urge them to 'VOTE YES ON THE PETRI / JOHNSON AMENDMENT' to preserve dedicated funding for biking and walking in the transportation bill.

Additional Talking Points: 

• Active transportation is a good for health, it reduces traffic congestion, and creates jobs! 

• The current version of the transportation bill reverses 20 years of progress by: (1) repealing the Safe Routes to School programs that create safe ways for kids to walk and ride bicycles to school, (2) allowing states to build bridges without safe access for pedestrians and bicycles, (3) eliminating coordinators for safe routes to school and bicycle and pedestrian transportation in state DOTs, and (4) destroying all mandatory transportation enhancements.

• Biking and walking make up 12% of all trips.  Yet, biking and walking projects receive less than 1.5% of federal transportation dollars.

• Two-thirds of pedestrian deaths take place on roads built with federal funding.  Ensuring funds for sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways make roads safer for everyone and prevent unnecessary deaths.

• Again, please tell my congressman to speak with colleagues TODAY to let them know this is an important issue to constituents.  I also ask that when the bill comes to the House floor that you vote YES to preserve funding for bicycling and walking in the bill.