Amtrak also provides an option for intercity travel for people who do not drive, including those with disabilities and senior citizens. On long-distance trains, over 20 percent of Amtrak's passengers are aged 65 or older and 38 percent are over 55 years of age. It serves many communities where alternative transportation either doesn't exist, is not affordable, or is inaccessible. H.R. 1437 also dedicates a 0.5 cents for Amtrak and leaves the rest of the funding alone. Please write or call your Senators and Representatives and urge them to support S. 436 and H.R. 1437.
Personal letters are particularly effective.
The Congressional Switchboard will connect you with your members. Many of these are not mitigation sites, and were not built for regulatory purposes. The great majority are the result of normal navigation and flood control projects within the Corps' authorization. The latest full length technical report on 11 of these sites was published in 1989, and we compared the 11 to 29 natural reference wetlands of similar type nearby. All were constructed using dredged material, and were built from 1972 through 1980, and they range in size from 10 to 5000 acres in size.