FINAL PUSH – CALL TO ACTION : 4 days only left for LESS TRAFFIC – BETTER TRANSIT – SAFER STREETS – CLEANER AIR

Just in from London: Congestion Pricing improves Pedestrian Safety

• Pedestrian Deaths decreased by 7% in 2005 and pedestrian light injuries decreased by 8%
• In New york , this would translate in 10 less deaths and 880 less injuries annually !

With only 4 days left, It is crunch time in Albany

We need your Help to win

Take 5 minutes to FAX these 9 Assembly Members

If you prefer to call,  the phone numbers are above. Here is a possible script:

• 
  Hello my name is … I am calling to ask Assembly member …… to vote in favor of the congestion pricing bill .
• We are experiencing high rate of asthma . Pedestrian are killed and injured on a regular basis.
• This is a time to vote for the greater good, to improve mass transit, pedestrian safety and reduce asthma.
• If 5 % of the commuters is inconvenienced, we feel it it small  price to pay for a better future.
• We beg the assembly member to vote in favor of the bill .

Congestion Pricing will help Clinton Hell’s Kitchen

• to reduce the number of individual cars ,
• to free up pedestrian bicycle and bus space to implement bus only lanes
• to improve air quality and reduce our high level of asthma ( the second highest in Manhattan after Harlem according to the Department of Health)
• to enforce gridlock laws
• by adding buses to the M104 an M42 routes and new cars for the A, C and E lines
• to support our vision of 9th Avenue

Congestion is the only way to

• obtain immediately $ 345 Million in Federal funding for transit Improvements
• to raise $ 30 Billion in transportation Capital funding

Congestion pricing is democratic

• only  6% of the population commutes by car and 80% of those do so by choice and not by necessity .
• the average revenue of a car commuter is about 25% higher than a bus commuter .