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Michigan Senate Passed Mediocre Transportation Funding Package

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The Michigan Senate voted July 1 on their alternative to a transportation funding package, passing it with mostly Republicans votes. While far better than the House version, it remains insufficient.

We applaud that it would provide roughly $80 million more a year for transit, but are concerned that transit gets only 5% of the total funding and only budget priorities are threatened.

We strongly urge the legislature to improve upon the Senate version and reject the House version, providing sufficient stable funding to our full transportation system without gutting other state budget priorities.

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Tell MDOT to Fix I-94 but NOT Widen It

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MDOT is seeking public input on their proposed $1.9 billion overhaul and widening of I-94 through midtown and the east side of Detroit, including redesigning the interchanges with I-96, M-10, and I-75.

You have an opportunity to share your opinions at a series of open-house style Public Meetings hosted by MDOT on Tuesday July 14 and Thursday July 16.

While TRU supports reconstruction of the old infrastructure including I-94, we and others have serious concerns about the project’s scope and magnitude of the project. We recommended critical changes:
1) No Expansion – no new travel lanes or service drives
2) Maintain and Improve Walkability, instead of removing 11 bridges!
3) Preserve Urban Fabric and Historic Buildings
4) Fully Evaluate Impacts and Alternatives – complete a “Supplemental EIS” and consider how transit could alleviate peak traffic on I-94.

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TRU Summer Meeting on Engaging Your Community in Transit Decision-Making

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The RTA and TRU need your help engaging people in Detroit, Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw Counties to develop a regional transit system that we want, need and are willing to pay for!

Come to TRU’s Summer Meeting Tuesday, June 16, 6-8pm, at MSU Detroit Center, to

• Learn the latest about the RTA’s transit projects and how you can help shape those decisions!
• Share Why Transit Matters to YOU and your community!
• Help get people throughout the region talking about Why Transit Matters with a fun contest and activities throughout the summer!

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Thanks for a great 2015 Regional Transit Awards dinner!!

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A huge thank you to everyone who came out to our 2015 Regional Transit Awards dinner on May 7! It was one of our biggest and best events yet!! Event photos and videos will be available soon, Special congratulations to our award winners:  Forward Motion Award for Most Effective Public Servant winner Melanie Piana Unsung Hero

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Proposal 1: Lessons Learned and Steps from Here

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We are TRU are very disappointed that Proposal 1 didn’t pass. Transit systems throughout Michigan needed the extra $115 million a year Prop 1 would have provided!

But now it’s time to move forward. And we need your help:

1) As the road funding debate rages, tell your state legislators to fund a full transportation funding fix that includes transit and doesn’t gut important state services.

2) It is up to us in southeast Michigan to raise our own funds to improve transit, which the RTA will ask voters to do in Nov 2016. Please support TRU’s efforts to get people throughout our region thinking about and sharing why #TransitMatters!

3) Voters in Nov 2016 will need a clear, simple plan to vote on. The RTA will be developing a Regional Transit Action Plan over the next six months. Join TRU and the RTA Tuesday May 12 at Campus Martius for the kickoff of a region-wide discussion on the transit system our region wants, needs, and is willing to pay for!

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