Organizations call for NEPA Environmental Assessment on PennDOT's Bayfront Project

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While the well-meaning leaders (and some employees) of Erie Insurance, Gannon, UPMC Hamot, Convention Center, the Port Authority and local governments are urging City Council to vote to support PennDOT’s massive arterial highway project, the residents and leaders and members of 22 organizations are united in requesting that the appropriate NEPA Environmental Assessment be completed prior to allowing PennDOT to proceed:

Presque Isle Audubon, All Aboard Erie. Bike Erie, Boulevard Park Association, CIVITAS,

Connect Urban Erie, the Erie County Democratic Party, PA Stans Up, New Village Press,

the Congress for the New Urbanism, Erie Equal, Kind Veg, PA United, Plant it Forward,

Lake Erie Group of the Sierra Club, Winds of Change, Penn Future, Save our Water/Air/Rights,

SONS of Lake Erie, Earth Justice, Erie NAACP and the Equity Coalition of Erie.