Take Action
Action Alerts:
- A draft workplan has been develped to guide our organizational activities through 2011. Please review and send any comments, questions, or concerns to info@indianacat.org by March 1, 2010.
- Indy Connect, Central Indiana’s Transportation Initiative, launched last week. This collaboration among the Indianapolis MPO, IndyGo, and the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority (CIRTA), provides an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of transportation options in Central Indiana. This initiative coincides with the development of the next long range plan and includes recommendations of the Central Indiana Transit Task Force, a group of business and community leaders who coordinated a private-sector study over the past year. Our input is vital to ensure that this continued investment in our transportation network includes comprehensive transit options and infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists, in addition to that for motorists. More than 25 meetings are being held throughout the 8 county area over the next 6 weeks, and we’re hopeful that we can have an ICAT member at each meeting. Please refer to the Benefits of Transit talking points document from our friends at Health by Design.
Updated February 15, 2010
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We do not anticipate any legislation in this current 2010 session of the Indiana General Assembly that will specifically address transit options and/or funding. Several of our partner organizations (ITA, CIRTA, etc.) will be focused on providing general education about the need for and value of public transportation in Indiana. We will keep you informed of specific ways you can support this broader effort, but we also encourage you to continue communicating the simple 3-point ICAT message at every possible opportunity:
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We need more transit
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We need more funding for transit
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We need more local funding options for transit
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- Why Take Action
- Contacting Your Legislators
- Sample Letter & Talking Points
Why Take Action: Again and again, transit advocates are told by legislators that transit is not an important issue to them because they don’t ever hear about it from their constituents! Although there are numerous organizations across the state advocating for transit development, legislators need to hear from voters, taxpayers & transit riders – not just interest groups.
- Click here to find names and phone numbers for your state legislators, or here to find names and phone numbers for local legislators
- Download these talking points
- Call your elected officials and tell them we need improved transit in Indiana!
Drop us a note at info@indianacat.org if you have a chance to let us know that citizens’ voices are being heard. These few minutes are a small sacrifice to make for the improved quality of life that will follow if we fulfill our vision of a fully developed and supported network of transit options in Indiana.
Contacting Your Legislators:
Sample Letter & Talking Points:
