We need your help now to STOP the I-270 – I-495 project that threatens our neighborhoods!
Join our campaign to generate thousands of comments to State and County officials!
Two grass-roots groups, DontWiden270.org and Citizens Against Beltway Expansion (CABE) have come together in a campaign to generate thousands of comments against this misguided project. It’s our best chance to stop this monstrosity.
This campaign is modeled after the successful 2018 Rockville campaign that generated many hundreds of comments. This time we’re reaching out to a far wider population. And our goal is thousands of comments.
Who we’re trying to impress
There are three groups of people who will watch the number and messages of the comments.
Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT-SHA).
Our County officials – they want to know what their residents think about the situation before they take their official position.
Key state legislators need to know the level of opposition to this boondoggle.
Why we need a campaign to spread the word
Here is the situation. Both CABE and DW270 have large email lists – and they will be used. But these email lists do not cover nearly all residents who would be impacted. We need to reach as many people as possible.
This further outreach can only be done with door hangers and postcards and frankly, by feet-on-the-street. And this is where we need your help.
We need you to volunteer and we need your contributions!
This extensive outreach effort will be in two parts. First is to distribute door hangers to as many doors as possible. Second, to help us mail to those neighborhoods where we cannot deliver door hangers.
The door-hanger and postcard efforts will start in mid-September. We have limited time, but we can do it!
Volunteers
We need people who can do the following:
Door-hanger distributors: Your job would be to place door hangers along selected streets. We need many such volunteers to reduce mailing costs.
Neighborhood organizers: Your job would be to organize the door hanger effort in your neighborhood. You may also recruit door-hanger distributors.
List preparers: Your job would be to use County or Municipal lists (public information available from the governmental websites) to help identify where we distribute door hangers and where we mail.
To volunteer, send a message to the following email address: contactdontwiden270@gmail.com.
Please provide your name, address, contact information (e-mail or phone number) and how you might be interested in helping.
Contributions
It takes money to print door hangers and postcards and buy stamps. What we can do is dictated by the amount of money that is contributed. All money raised by this campaign will be used for door hangers or a postcard mailing.
To contribute, please go to this CABE PayPal site. All contributions must be made through PayPal to CABE.
Please act now to volunteer and contribute, so DontWiden270.org and CABE can, with your help, conduct this comment-generating campaign for all of us!