Events 2013

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98. More September transportaion meetings

Coming up next week—tell us ([e-mail]) if you can attend:

Sept. 17, 6-9pm – Bellevue. Stevenson Elementary School, 14220 NE 8th
Sept. 18, 6-9pm – Everett. Snohomish County, Robert Drewel Building, 3000 Rockefeller Ave., 1st floor

It’s time to speak up for smart, healthy, cost-effective transportation networks that mean safety and jobs for all of us.
If you have your own story about what it means to invest in biking, like the story Stella's mom told about biking to school in Kirkland or the support from Vancouver to Anacortes for local trail projects or Frank's success as a teacher getting kids on bikes in Tukwila, tell the legislature.
Additional points you can share with the Senate, your own legislators (look them up online and send an email), and Gov. Inslee:

•Washington only works when all people who bike, walk, take transit, and drive have an equal opportunity to get where we need to go safely and efficiently. We need future-oriented transportation investments that represent our values and share our priorities for safety, jobs, and health.

•Cost-effective investments in biking and walking transportation are good for drivers too; they increase safety for all while they keep people moving and reduce pollution from Washington’s roadways.

•Safe, comfortable, complete bike networks attract businesses, a talented workforce, tourists, and home buyers to help grow Washington’s economy.

•Bikes mean jobs: Biking and walking investments create 40% more jobs per dollar spent than for other transportation projects.

•Investments in Safe Routes to School to help kids walk and bike have improved safety with zero collisions or injuries at all Safe Routes project sites, and have helped our kids get more active and arrive at school ready to learn. We need to keep this up to make the next generation healthier.

•In Washington driving user fees (gas taxes, licenses, tolls) fund less than half the cost of our streets and roads. We all pay for streets—we should all be able to move freely and safely.

When the legislature comes to your town, show up to show them you care. Speak up to tell them your story. Stand up for biking and walking, for fixing our roads, for investing in the transportation system of the future. It takes every one of us to make sure Washington bikes.