ARTBA's Digital Media Campaign Urges Highway Trust Fund Fix

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) launches a digital media campaign to amplify the voices of the transportation design and construction industry as Congress nears critical deadlines on how to fund road, bridge

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The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) launches a digital media campaign to amplify the voices of the transportation design and construction industry as Congress nears critical deadlines on how to fund road, bridge and public transit improvement projects.

At issue is the federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF), which is the source, on average, of more than 52% of highway and bridge capital investments made annually by state governments.  The current federal highway/transit funding authorization expires on May 31 unless Congress takes action, and the next HTF cash crisis could occur later this summer.
 
ARTBA is using the platform of Phone2Action, a Washington, D.C.-based digital grassroots company, to help its members and supporters contact Congress more easily through social media, phone calls and email.
 
With 90% of Americans owning cell phones and nearly 75% using social media, along with the fact that all 100 U.S. senators and 97% of the U.S. House of Representatives have Twitter and Facebook accounts, the Phone2Action platform makes it easy for the industry’s grassroots activists to use their phones or tablets to reach elected officials with messages about the need to fix the HTF and pass a long-term transportation bill.
 
The new campaign — with the hashtag #fixthetrustfund — launched April 14 during ARTBA’s Federal Issues Program in the Nation’s Capital. In just three days, ARTBA members and industry professionals have connected with hundreds of policy makers, sending more than 1,000 emails, tweets and Facebook postings to their members of Congress, underscoring popular support for fixing the HTF.
 
The ARTBA campaign is accessible here. Information about the campaign also is being made available through an instant alert text messaging system, which can be accessed by texting HIGHWAY to 52886.

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