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	"author_name": "Bike Durham",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/bike-durham",
	"title": "Support a new direction for transportation in the Triangle",
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	"description": "We need your help to stop highway expansion and increase investment in transit, sidewalks, and a protected bicycle network. Last year, Bike Durham&#x27;s advocacy successfully pushed the executive board of the regional transportation planning agency, Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization, to adopt necessary objectives for their 2050 plan, including Zero Deaths or Serious Injuries, Zero Disparity of Access, and Zero Carbon Emissions. Now, at this point in the process, the DCHC MPO is seeking comments through December 7th on their Preferred Option for investments in their 2050 plan. In response to our advocacy when the draft alternatives were released, the DCHC MPO Executive Board directed the staff to draft a preferred option to show investments that will move us strongly toward the adopted objectives of Zero Deaths or Serious Injuries, Zero Disparity of Access, and Zero Carbon Emissions. While there is still a long way to go, the Preferred Option marks a departure from past plans by removing most roadway expansion projects and planning for massive, yet still inadequate investments in sidewalks, bicycle facilities, and transit. We are broadly supportive of Preferred Option and encourage you to send in comments to that effect. The staff and Executive Board are already getting some push back on the proposal to remove highway widening projects from the plan. We need to encourage the Executive Board of DCHC to move forward and adopt the Preferred Option.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/support-a-new-direction-for-transportation-in-the-triangle"
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