Transit was in crisis Transit agencies nationwide were devastated by COVID-19 and related stay-at-home orders. Ridership plummeted while expenses jumped. Yet nurses, grocery clerks, and other essential workers have depended on the bus throughout – and we all depend on people who depend on transit! Essential emergency funding now signed into law On March 11, […]
Victory!! $30 Billion to #SaveTransit! Read More »
Today, Tuesday, March 2nd, TRU is calling all our members to speak out and help #SaveTransit! Congress will soon be voting on the federal COVID-19 Relief Bill, which currently includes $30 billion dollars for federal transit funding. If passed, these funds would be critical to keeping transit agencies operating into the coming years, despite massive
Tuesday March 2nd – Action Day to #SaveTransit! Read More »
For twenty years, TRU has fought for Detroit area transit, through every crisis and every opportunity. Member donations make it possible. Join TRU today! Most recently, we helped win emergency transit funding: When COVID-19 struck, bus ridership plummeted 70%. Bus agencies stopped charging fares and doubled their cleaning regimes. Their budgets were headed off a
Keep Our City Rolling: Give Today to Defend Transit! Read More »
Many of us can and must stay and home and shelter-in-place. That’s what TRU staff are doing. Yet we know many people must continue to go places on the bus: Nurses and janitors need to reach hospitals, grocery clerks and pharmacy techs need to get to stores, and anyone without a car still needs food
Still on the Bus? Please Share Your Experience! Read More »
Public transit workers are absolutely essential. They make it possible for nurses, janitors, and grocery workers to to get to work, accepting significant risks to their own health to do so. Help us thank Detroit transit drivers, mechanics, bus cleaners, and other workers by adding your name to this thank you poster. We will add
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