Transportation
Legislative Priority in 2008
LWVMD takes Action to support an integrated transportation system and mass transit systems which are efficient, safe, clean and accessible. Support for adequate and equitable funding and cooperative regional programs is necessary to achieve these goals. (2001)
Support for:
-Maintaining the solvency of the Transportation Trust Fund.
-Increasing funding for mass transit.
-Developing regional visions and frameworks for transportation which reflect local concerns and which incorporate relevant LWV positions on land use, economic development, and environmental protection.
-Achieving and maintaining cooperative working relationships among state and local agencies in order to achieve better planning and to decrease the use of single occupancy vehicles.
-Incentives which promote use of mass transit and other alternative modes of travel.
-Public education to promote transportation goals which would provide alternative travel modes, encourage technological improvements that abate emissions from mobile sources, reduce energy consumption and protect natural resources.