On Thursday, February 1, the Wisconsin Chapter Sierra Club and the Coulee Region Group will host an online program about a new initiative to improve access to parks, recreation areas, and natural spaces. The hour-long program will start at 6:30 p.m. and be hosted on Zoom. We will welcome representatives of the national campaign along with Sierra Club members from around Wisconsin who are working on this issue in their communities.
Transit to Trails for All is an initiative to highlight the need for better public transportation to ensure everyone has access to our wild, recreation, and natural areas whether or not they own a car. Too many people are unable to enjoy and be healed by our local, state, and national parks because of poor public transportation.
This issue includes the rights of non-drivers (estimated to be almost one-third of Wisconsin residents by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation), but also the fairness of our current transportation budgets and planning that prioritizes higway expansion at the expense of public transit, not just in Wisconsin, but around the country.
In the meantime, read more about the issue at https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2019/09/transit-trails
And consider contacting Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson to co-sponsor the 2023-2024 Transit to Trails Act (tinyurl.com/2324T2TAct), S. 1440, "a program to award grants to entities that provide transportation connectors from critically underserved communities to green spaces, and for other purposes."
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