Making the Land Use and Transportation Link
Urge the VA General Assembly to make meaningful reforms

Contact your Senator and Delegate today! The Virginia General Assembly is going into special session on September 27, to once again debate transportation funding. Our elected officials need to focus on making meaningful reforms that link between land use and transportation.

Contact your legislators today to counter special interests who will be pushing for more money that would make sprawl and traffic worse in the absence of real reform. It is critical that the debate be about more than throwing money at the problem.

Tell your legislators:

1. Better land use planning and VDOT planning reforms must be the top priority. Ask for a new public process to reevaluate the unaffordable and highway heavy state transportation plan and regional plans.
2. We need performance standards and goals for our transportation plans. Such measures include less traffic congestion, reduction in the distances and amount that people have to drive, and increases in the use of transit, walking, bicycling, carpooling and telecommuting.
3. Planning reforms must have adequate funding for implementation. Planning reforms should be matched with increased funding for transit, freight/passenger rail, pedestrian/bicycle facilities, and local streets.
4. You oppose highway expansions and bypasses that increase sprawl development and that you want better public oversight of road privatization and tolling.

For more information, please read this open letter to Governor Kaine and the General Assembly from more than 15 Virginia civic groups.

Contact Your Elected Officials

Governor Tim Kaine
Send an email
Phone: (804) 786-2211
Fax: (804) 371-6351

State Legislators
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If you already know who your legislators are, contact information is available on the General Assembly website. Click on the name of your Senator and Delegate to obtain contact information for both the district office and Richmond office.

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