Model Policies
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In 2016, DC Water (utility) issued Environmental Impact Bonds (EIB) "to fund green infrastructure (GI) projects to capture and infiltrate runoff ... and thereby improve the health of waterways."
Several years later, DC Water declared the EIB a success, and noted that EIBs had been issues in other...
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Gov. Holcomb Letter re: Next Level Trails
The Indiana Legislative Trails Caucus Co-Chairs asked Governor Holcomb to release Next Level Funding in May, 2020 as a critical response to the COVID-19 Crisis.
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Gov. Holcomb Letter re: Next Level Trails
The Indiana Legislative Trails Caucus Co-Chairs asked Governor Holcomb to release Next Level Funding in May, 2020 as a critical response to the COVID-19 Crisis.
Success Stories

California’s Active Transportation Program: A Model of Stable, Consolidated Funding
In 2013, California’s Senate Bill 99 created California’s first active transportation program. Earlier in the year, the governor had proposed cuts to active transportation funding. A coalition of advocates—including Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the Coalition for Recreational Trails, the Safe Routes...

Trail Users Help Kill Anti-Bike/Ped Bill in Tennessee
Thanks to the grassroots mobilization of thousands of cyclists and trail users in Spring 2016, legislation that could have had negative repercussions for active transportation around the country officially died with the close of the Tennessee General Assembly’s annual session.
Rails-to-Trails...