From nemecek at san.rr.com Thu Jan 12 10:13:07 2017 From: nemecek at san.rr.com (Nancy Nemecek) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:13:07 -0800 Subject: [ABATE Local 6 Elist] [ABATE] FW: Call to Action - Motorcyclist Advisory Council from the MRF In-Reply-To: <00da01d26cf5$4038b050$c0aa10f0$@abate.org> References: <00da01d26cf5$4038b050$c0aa10f0$@abate.org> Message-ID: <011c01d26cff$871b4fa0$9551eee0$@san.rr.com> IMPORTANT? Please follow the link and fill out the letter. Thanks, Nancy Subject: FW: Call to Action - Motorcyclist Advisory Council Please forward this to everyone! It is so easy, all you have to do is put your contact information and the form letter will be sent to your elected officials. Thanks, From: Megan Ekstrom [mailto:megan at mrf.org] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 9:40 AM To: MRF Reps Cc: Executive Directors Subject: Call to Action - Motorcyclist Advisory Council MRF Reps: Hopefully on Monday you received a notice from the MRF asking you to contact your Member of Congress and Senators concerning the reestablished Motorcyclist Advisory Council or ?MAC.? As you know, the MAC is the only formalized dialogue between the motorcycle community and DoT officials. The purpose of the ?MAC? is to share rider experience with the Federal Highway Administration specifically focusing on areas like roadway deigns and construction, barriers and other emerging issues like the effects of ITS and autonomous vehicles on motorcyclists across the nation. On Monday of this week, the Federal Highway Administration announced that they were moving forward with the MAC and they were calling for nominations to serve on the Council. HOWEVER, if you look at the notice they are only calling for ONE of the TEN spots to be served by an actual motorcyclist. This is completely unacceptable. How can the government established a Council that?s supposed to be a dialogue between the motorcycle community and the federal authorities, but only have 1 motorcyclist represented? This is unfair, incredibly unbalanced and is truly contrary to the mission of the Council itself. As such, we are asking you to contact your Member of Congress and Senators to intervene by contacting the Federal Highway Administration. Please visit the link below to submit a prewritten letter that will go directly to your elected officials. We must make our voices heard on this issue! http://mrf.org/federal-legislative-issues/ Please also feel free to post on social media and forward this to your fellow riders and local MRO members ? the more voices, the better! Contact me with any questions. Megan J. Ekstrom Vice-President, Government Affairs & Public Relations Motorcycle Riders Foundation 1325 G Street N.W. Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: (202) 725-5471 Fax: (202) 546-0986 www.mrf.org No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7161 / Virus Database: 4749/13750 - Release Date: 01/11/17 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ABATE Discussion" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to abate_ca+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to abate_ca at googlegroups.com . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/abate_ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 20115 bytes Desc: not available URL: