SIGN RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY’S PETITION TO AAA
AAA wants trail and bicycle/pedestrian funding cut from transportation funding. Please sign RTC’s petition today!
Our friends at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy are fighting the good fight for trails and bicycle/pedestrian programs, and they need your help! AAA is advocating for the elimination of the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program from the transportation trust fund. Trails and bike/ped get less than 2 cents of every dollar in the fund, but AAA wants that money to go to highways and roads, turning back the clock on 20 years of progress toward a balanced transportation system.
It started with AAA Mid-Atlantic in Delaware. Since then AAA National (Heathrow, FL) has indicated they support Mid-Atlantic’s position. Incidentally, other AAA locations have trails. Take a peek at this video taken last week of AAA Mid-Atlantic headquarters that shows the trail just steps from the AAA building. Go figure! Our friends at YouTube support trails too.
RTC has launched a petition to ask AAA to reconsider their position. More than 30,000 people have signed so far, and supporters-and AAA members-are flooding their regional AAA chapters asking one simple question: Will AAA support critical, established walking and bicycling programs-and the funding source that allows them to thrive-now and into the future?
So far, AAA has yet to provide a satisfactory answer.
With AAA National headquarters right here in Florida (and with the TE-funded Seminole-Wekiva Trail in their front yard), let’s add as many Florida voices as possible to the petition. Let AAA know that we value safe, accessible places to walk and bike, and that modern transportation is about more than just highways!
I am very disappointed in your stance on bicycle and walkiing trails.
Please accept my request to reconsider your withdrawl of support for the walking, bicycling programs. My husband, Wayne Yarber and I, in our 70′s have enjoyed the opportunity to ride these safe trails, for years, and their loss or disrepair would be a loss to all of us. Thank you for your consideration of this request, Vincentia and Wayne Yarber
I enjoy my AAA membership, but also commute and am an avid cyclist. Increasing the number of pedestrian and cycling trails will only benefit users and the community and state – and that at an extremely inexpensive price tag. In comparison with the waste in government spending projects, trail spending is efficient, wholesome and welcome.
Please reconsider your decision.
Thanks for bringing this issue to the spotlight and putting it into clear terms for all bike/ped advocates all over the U.S.
I’ve copied you message in my blog WalkBikeJersey so to help spread the word about AAA stance on the issue.
Many Thanks!
Andy B
I am a AAA member and am very disappointed in the organization for its anti-bicycling stance.