Speak Out: Protect Funding for Regional Bike Network (MTC Proposes to Cut by Over 80 Percent)
Thanks go out to our friends at the SFBC and TransForm for bringing this to our attention. From the SFBC’s website:
When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) adopted the 2009 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) this spring… [they] included $400 million in funding for a five-year Transportation Climate Action Campaign with $100 million worth of funding for the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) and Safe Routes to Transit (SRTT) programs.Now the MTC is backpedaling on their commitment to climate protection. Instead of funding the Transportation Climate Action Campaign in the first five years of the life of the RTP, they’re proposing to shift funding to freeway priorities and fund the Climate Campaign at just 17% of the level promised, threatening millions of dollars of bicycle funding!
We invite you to join WOBO, the SFBC and Transform in letting the MTC Commissioners know you want them to fully fund the Transportation Climate Action Campaign. Click here to send a message to the MTC Commissioners on this important issue.