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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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Seeking Community Outreach and Social Media Interns/Volunteers

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TRU is seeking help for our big summer outreach campaign: #TransitMatters!

As in previous summers, TRU staff, interns, and volunteers will be traversing the region to talk transit. We have posted two position descriptions for student interns and/or dedicated volunteers. We are seeking up to 4 Community Engagement Intern/Volunteers and one Social Media Intern/Volunteer.

These are great opportunities to build skills, add substantive experience to your resume, and get actively involved in improving public transit for southeast Michigan.

Resumes received by April 13 will receive priority consideration.

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