Dear Friend,
I hope you and your loved ones are in good health. As our world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, we're thankful to everyone fighting this virus: from healthcare workers on the front lines to MARTA employees keeping public transit surfaces sanitized, to individuals practicing proper social distancing--we each have an important role to play. Atlanta Bicycle Coalition staff have been working remotely since March 16th to help flatten the curve, but we haven’t stopped advocating on your behalf.
If anything, safe streets feel even more relevant to the world today. Many people are biking, walking, and riding transit to fulfill essential responsibilities. Sidewalks and streets are full of families exercising while social distancing.
Yet with less traffic congestion, we’ve also seen increased speeding. This further endangers peoples’ lives at a time when our hospitals threaten to be dangerously overwhelmed with patients. Traffic deaths & injuries are preventable, and that resonates even more loudly in this moment of healthcare resource vulnerability.
Today, we face increasing uncertainty when it comes to funding our work. We're working harder than ever to reclaim Atlanta’s streets for people to walk, ride, and roll. Your donations help keep us going, and we need your help.
Please donate to support our advocacy today, so we can emerge stronger than ever from this crisis.
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