Transit Riders for Public Transportation (TRPT) is a new national campaign that aims to intervene in the reauthorization of the national surface transportation act. We are changing the terms of the debate by flipping the script. TRPT is asking for an 80% transportation and 20% highway and freeway funding split as a major step towards improving mass transit and stopping the catastrophic speed of global warming. Present federal transit funding has a “formula” of 80% for freeway and highway and only 20% to public transportation. The current act, reauthorized every six years is set to expire in September of this year, and the next act is being hailed as the next “six year stimulus,” worth $500 billion. TRPT is meeting with congressional representatives from Oregon, to New York, to Atlanta, to Los Angeles, and also leading grassroots district campaigns. Continue reading Quality Public Transit is important to everyone! Stand Up for Your Right to Social Justice.
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