• Home
• Trails
• What's Hot
• Advocacy
• Calendar
• Training
• Resources
• Business Directory
• Join Us
• Store
• About Us
• Symposium

Support the Recreational Trails Program!

Hearings to be held nationwide during February on transportation issues

The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee kicks off a series of nationwide Congressional hearings and public forums during February 2011 on pending major surface transportation legislation. Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) announced the series of cross-country Committee meetings with state and local officials and transportation stakeholders.

The goal is to inform the Committee’s drafting of a long-term reauthorization of the nation’s highway, transit, and highway safety programs. The Committee will seek input on how to "consolidate and improve the performance of programs, cut government red tape and streamline the project delivery process, increase private sector investment in our infrastructure, identify creative financing alternatives, and other ideas for writing the legislation." The previous multi-year law (SAFETEA- LU) expired in September 2009.
 
Many of these meeting locations are in districts of new Congressmen that serve on the Transportation Committee. Check with the Representatives offices on times and exact locations. Those marked with an asterisk are field hearings; the rest are structured more in the format of town hall-listening sessions.
 
*2/14    Beckley, West Virginia
2/14       Charleston, West Virginia - Public forum: 11:00 a.m. - Yeager Airport; 100 Airport Road - Suite 175; Charleston, WV
2/17       Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2/18       Scranton, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New York
*2/19    Columbus, Ohio - Ohio State House, Senate Finance Hearing Room, 1 Capitol Square - This field hearing of the Full Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
2/19       Indianapolis, Indiana
2/20       Chicago, Illinois
2/21       Vancouver, Washington
2/22       Fresno, California
*2/23    Los Angeles, California
*2/24    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2/24       Jonesboro, Arkansas
2/25       Memphis, Tennessee

Support the Recreational Trails Program! Join our efforts with the Coalition for Recreational Trails to get RTP funding included in the next transportation bill and sign on to the letter supporting RTP. Will your state's trails program survive? See Concerns about the future of the Recreational Trails Program.

Sign on to the letter supporting RTP!

Read more about Reauthorization of federal transportation funds and programs like RTP and see a description of the RTP program

The 2011 Federal Budget: funding issues for trails