Ask Your Member of Congress to Help Complete America's Streets!

Make them safe for people of all ages and abilities--whether walking, biking, taking transit or driving.

Millions of Americans are walking and bicycling and catching the bus along roads that are not properly designed – most everyone has seen the pathways tramped in the grass alongside a major roadway. This is a problem on many levels, making our streets more dangerous and encouraging more people to drive everywhere—which means more congestion and more pollution and more hard earned money going to fill up the gas tank, among other problems.

We know how to design roads that are safe for everyone – but in most places this is only done for ‘special’ projects. This needs to change. A federal complete streets policy would result in better roads getting built around the country – and better use of the billions of dollars invested every year in building and maintaining roads.

With the form below, write and tell your representative to support federal complete streets legislation in 2009: the bills are S. 584 introduced by Senator Harkin and H.R. 1443 introduced by Representative Matsui.

You can edit or personalize the text of the email on the next page, which will help strengthen your message. Feel to add a story of your own from your community. Talk about local streets that are unsafe or the local demand for walking, biking, and safe, convenient places to use public transportation.