Petition for Safer Roads

This petition has been written, signed and submitted by the residents of Alabama and the counties and cities within Alabama.  This petition for safer roads is to the State of Alabama legislators.  This petition for safer roads is also to the city council members, mayors, city planners and road engineers of every county, city and municipality within Alabama. We, the aforementioned signees of this petition, are hereby contacting you with concern from the road users in the area that you represent or have jurisdiction over. 

We are contacting you today and we will be contacting you tomorrow regarding the need for wider roads.  Unfortunately, the majority of the roads in this area are too narrow and do not allow for both motorized and non-motorized vehicles to co-exist on taxpayer funded road ways.  As a result, serious injuries and deaths are happening far too frequently to the citizens in which you have asked to vote for you.  In addition, hostilities between motorized and non-motorized road users erupt because of this lack of space.

Making the roads wider will make the road ways safer for both motorized and non-motorized road users.  This safer atmosphere for the non-motorized road users will, in effect, encourage other citizens that currently rely on motorized transportation to entertain the idea of a non-motorized alternative for travel.  As a result, more people will ride or walk to the store, work or to a friend's house in another neighborhood.  This change will help alleviate the current traffic problems and the current air pollution problems that affect are area.  These changes will also allow for children to safely walk to school or ride their bikes to school.  In general, these changes will improve the quality of life for the citizens of Alabama, its counties, cities and municipalities.

We understand that it may not always be feasible to place dedicated lanes on the roads for non-motorized road users due to space.  However, small adjustments to the current road designs, such as wider shoulders on the road ways and where feasible, dedicated lanes for non-motorized road users would allow the motorized and non-motorized road users to use the same roads with increased safety for both and reduced hostilities.

Please, on all future road projects, make provisions for both the motorized and non-motorized road users.  We no longer want to hear that there is no money and our requests going unheard.  There is money to fund these road projects and we want these road projects done now.  For every day you delay, another citizen, taxpayer and voter gets killed or seriously injured.

Signed,

Resident, Tax Payer and Road User