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Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has introduced the Complete Streets Act of 2008, to require that DOTs and MPOs adopt Complete Streets policies to remain eligeable for federal funds. Co-sponsors and supporters of this bill are essential, so please contact your US senator to urge them to support this bill.

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SB644 FAILED to be Reported Out of House Transportation Subcommittee 2 this morning by a 3-3 vote.As has increasingly been the case as this legislative session wears on, this vote was right along party lines, with the 3 D’s (Marsden from Fairfax, Nichols from Woodbridge, and Ward from Hampton) voting to report [...]

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Chairman Joe May of the House Transportation Committee threw another obstacle in the way of this bill, even though his committee had already heard and passed the identical House bill patroned by Del. Ebbin less than 3 weeks ago, by assigning it to be heard by Subcommittee 2 (which also had [...]

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SB644, Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalks, was Passed By (postponed) for the day today in the House Transportation Committee and will be heard Thursday at 8:30 a.m.Apparently Sen. Ticer had a conflict and requested that it be passed by.
There is still time to call the Committee members if you haven’t already done so.
The general [...]

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The House Transportation Committee docket for tomorrow (1/2 hour after adjournment, which usually means around 2 p.m.) has just been posted, and SB644 is listed.
Now is the time for all constituents of Transportation Committee delegates to call them and ask them to support the “Motorists Must Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalks” bill, SB644.
Committee [...]

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by Bud Vye
Have not had a chance to talk with Del. Ebbin about the action on the House floor today (will try to do so tomorrow), but from the Legislative website it appears that the bill was defeated by a 47-48 vote (although who voted for and against is not listed), after [...]

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Senator Ticer’s SB644 passed the Senate today by a 22-16 vote and now goes over to the House, where it will be heard by the House Transportation committee (unless the House Bill 1270 , which is identical, passes the House, in which event both bills will be “conformed” into one, whereupon I’m not exactly [...]

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by Bud Vye
HB1270 — motorists to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks — was narrowly reported out of the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday by an 11-8 vote. A close look at the vote shows that all of the 8 opposing votes were by Republicans, and that three Republicans were not present.
All of the [...]

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Delegate Ebbin’s bill (which is identical to Sen. Ticer’s bill on the Senate side) was reported out of House Transportation SubCommittee 2 to the full House Transportation Committee this morning by a 5 - 2 vote. Del. Fralin of Roanoke led the opposition as he has done to similar bills over the past [...]

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SB644 (motorists to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks), was reported out of the Senate Transportation Committee yesterday afternoon by a 9 - 6 vote. (The first time such a bill has ever gotten out of committee in at least 6 years.)The bad news is that all of the Republicans on the Committee voted against [...]

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