Action Alert, Call State Reps!

Tell your state legislator to restore funding for Michigan passenger trains to 2009 levels ($7.3 million) in the new transportation budget.

The Michigan senate slashed fiscal year 2010 funds for Michigan passenger train service by almost half. The Michigan house of representatives followed the governor's recommended budget and slashed fiscal year 2010 funds by 22%. Two of the state's three train routes will cease to operate by early or late spring next year under these budgets. What's worse is that these actions jeopardize the state's application for $800 million in federal grants to build a high-speed route linking Detroit to Chicago and other destinations throughout the Midwest and to improve train operations and stations throughout Michigan.

Michigan's continued investment in current train service is essential to leveraging the federal funding available to bring passenger trains into the 21st century, along with the jobs and economic development that will accompany this expansion.

Please call your state senator and representative NOW and follow up with email.

-- Tell them YOU RIDE THE TRAIN, and

-- Ask them to RESTORE FUNDING for the Pere Marquette and the Blue Water routes to the full $7.3 million provided in the current year.

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