Public Transit is on the November Ballot! MACOMB County Public Transportation Millage – a renewal of the 0.95 mill funding to keep the SMART buses rolling for another five years While SMART has been serving Macomb County for more than twenty years, in 2018, the renewal proposal came within 40 votes of being defeated and […]
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Transit funding is on the ballot throughout all of Oakland and Macomb Counties. This page is designed to help anyone who wants to know more about this issue and ways to effectively communicate about it! Key Messages Vote YES on your County Public Transit Millage! Tens of thousands of our neighbors depend on the SMART
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Latest updates: Transit is on the November 8 ballot! The Oakland County Commission voted with bipartisan support August 10 to place a 0.95 10-year transit millage on their countywide ballot – to not only maintain existing SMART services, but to also expand transit services throughout all of Oakland County. A huge thank you to Chairman
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Southeast Michigan has long been hurt by the patchwork system of transit that allows each town decide whether to provide transit or not. People can’t get to jobs. Seniors are left stranded when they can’t drive. Bus routes ineffectively skip or circle around parts. Oakland County can finally eliminate that and go All-In for Transit!
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One of TRU’s greatest accomplishments over our twenty years of advocacy is that we changed the Detroit region’s public perception about the value of transit. When we started in 1999, a lot of people said, “Transit? Who cares? Why bother? We’re the Motor City!” Over time we shifted that to, “Well, it’d be nice to
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