Action Alert: Support a Balanced 2009 Jobs and Transportation Act - HB 2120

You can take action on this alert by reading the information below and following the directions at the bottom.

The Oregon Jobs and Transportation Act provides critical funding for a range of transportation investments and maintenance. This balanced package will increase transportation choices by shifting federal funds to non-highway transportation projects.

HB 2120 requires all six major metropolitan areas to set their own targets for helping to meet the states global warming goals and provides these fast-growing areas with new planning tools and financial resources for transportation and land use investments that will lead to less global warming pollution.

The Jobs and Transportation Act will be successful in tackling global warming because it requires the six largest metropolitan regions in Oregon (Portland, Salem, Corvallis, Eugene, Medford, and Bend) to plan how they will help achieve the statewide goals for reducing global warming pollution by a specific percentage by 2020, 2030, and 2050.

Local planning will allow each community to determine how it is best suited to meeting the state goals. And reducing global warming pollution will save Oregon households thousands of dollars per year according to a University of Oregon study.

We need to help cities and counties improve their land use and transportation plans to provide Oregonians more choices of where to live and how to get around, including: encouraging mixed-use development; investing in connections like bike paths, sidewalks, and local streets that make biking, walking, and short driving trips more convenient; and making Oregon communities more compact and efficient by limiting outward expansion and sprawl.

Please follow the directions at the bottom of this page so you can edit the sample letter below and send the message to your Senator and Representative that the time is now for Oregon to take action on this critical issue. Please use your home address so it goes to your legislators.

For more information about the Jobs and Transportation Act see this fact sheet.

Your message will be sent to each of the following targets:

Representative Cliff Bentz
Representative David Edwards
Representative Deborah Boone
Representative E. Terry Beyer
Representative George Gilman
Representative Jim Weidner
Representative Jules K. Bailey
Representative Michael Schaufler
Representative Nick Kahl
Representative Vicki Berger
Your State Representative
Your State Senator

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