What does it mean to be a Friend of Transit?
You agree that transit is important. Public transit needs more investment, and that metro Detroit needs more and better transit. TRU’s Friends of Transit Network gives you an opportunity to voice that support and meet like minded people, organizations, and causes.
What you get by being a Friend of Transit:
- Monthly email updates on top transit-related news, events, and opportunities
- Quarterly briefings, conference calls, or other opportunities for allies to learn, advise, and engage
- Concrete opportunities to take meaningful actions
- Transit-related reports, facts, and analysis
- TRU will offer to give presentations to your staff, network, or community
- Answers to transit-related questions, as feasible
- Occasionally share your info in TRU’s newsletter
- Connections to other people in the Network
What we ask of our Friends of Transit in return:
- Join / add a few staff to our email list to get regular updates
- Share specific transit info with your network
- Sign on to group letters on specific issues
- Contact specific elected officials
- Financially support TRU’s advocacy
- Donations, membership, or sponsorship
- Explore joint grant opportunities
- Submit or co-sign op-eds
- Arrange transit impact story interviews
- Have a team member apply to join TRU’s board
- Other education, mobilization, and advocacy opportunities as may arise
Our Friends of Transit
- 482Forward
- AFSCME local 312
- ATU Local 1564
- ATU Local 836, Grand Rapids, MI
- Citizens Climate Lobby, Greater Detroit Chapter
- COTS
- Detroit Disability Power
- Detroit Jews for Justice
- Disability Network Eastern Michigan
- Disability Rights Michigan
- “Disability Rights Michigan is the federally mandated agency in Michigan to advocate and protect the legal rights of individuals with disabilities. We provide free, legal advocacy, short-term assistance, give information and advice, and engage in outreach and education efforts. We are a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization.”
- Eastside Community Network
- For Our Future Fund
- Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities
- “Groundwork’s Transportation & Community Design program advances projects and policies that keep our neighborhoods livable and walkable. We are working with policymakers, agencies, and advocates across the state to expand Michigan’s passenger rail network and we support efforts that advance public transportation options in communities.”
- Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice
- League of Michigan Bicyclists (LMB)
- “LMB’s mission is to ‘improve life through bicycling’ and we believe that the availability of great transit, with integration for bikes, makes bicycling for transportation easier and more practical for more people. We also believe that more people riding transit means safer roads for people riding bicycles.”
- Lift Up A Child
- MACC Development
- Michigan Alliance For Justice In Climate
- Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers (MARP)
- MARP strongly supports intermodal connections at train stations
- Michigan Climate Action Network
- Michigan Environmental Council
- Michigan League for Public Policy
- Michigan United
- PEAC
- “Community is not accessible unless it has a great transit system.”
- Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision
- Strong Towns Detroit
- Walk Bike Washtenaw
- Kalamazoo Transit Riders Union