Transit Advocacy
It’s Officially Transit Month
The San Francisco Transit Riders, Seamless Bay Area, and other advocates celebrate buses, trains, ferries, and the people who make them run.
Are Memphis’s Massive Transit Cuts The Start of an Alarming Trend?
Memphis's iconic trolley service was recently shut down — and now, as agencies across America come up against hard fiscal realities, much of its bus service is on the chopping block, too.
Calling Out In Transit: ‘Train Lovers for Harris-Walz’ Raise $12K in One Zoom Room
The goal was to raise money and to galvanize attention on the least weird thing around: good public transit.
New Transportation Equity Dashboard Finds Some Cities Trailing
"[Chicago transit is] falling behind in a post-COVID world," the report's creators say.
‘A Petition, a Website, and a T-shirt’: Ann Arbor Advocates Share Tips for Fighting Highway Expansions
Ann Arbor advocates helped get a destructive and wasteful highway expansion thrown out — and they have some ideas on how you can, too.
‘Connect Bay Area Act’ Withdrawn
A new setback for Bay Area transit.
More than 30 Organizations Ask Calif. Governor to Lift Transit Funding Freeze
The letter comes a day before Governor Newsom is scheduled to announce his May Budget Revision.
Sudden State Funding Freeze Leaves Calif. Transit Agencies Hanging
Transit agencies were caught off guard by a 60-day funding freeze announced on the day they were expecting the allocations.
California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation
Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.
