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Transit Must be a Priority in the Legislature’s Final Days of 2024

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Public transit supporters had high hopes that Michigan’s 102nd legislature would achieve great things, given the newly formed Legislative Transit Caucus and pledges from the Democratic trifecta to fight for affordability and equity. Yet beyond a one-time boost in last year’s budget, transit has achieved little lasting benefit. As the number of legislative session days […]

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Support Transit for ALL of Wayne County!

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Nearly 40 years ago, local municipal leaders throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties decided whether to allow their voters to choose to invest in public transit. (Macomb County included all communities.) Many communities let their resident vote and those voters approved transit investments nearly every time, resulting in the current SMART bus system. Other municipal leaders

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Wolverine at Ann Arbor with SOAR logo overlayed

What Michigan Could Build: SOAR Reform

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With the Legislature coming back in session for a few short weeks, we’re ready to put wind back in the sails of transit investment! On the agenda is a SOAR-reform package that would invest $2 billion over ten years in transformational transit, rail, and other mobility projects. But it’s a few votes short of passing

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Michigan Failed to Boost State Investment in Transit

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Final update 6/27: Disappointing final budget Despite hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations speaking out for greater transit funding, the final budget failed to increase or even maintain the funding levels provided last year. The final budget included just $246 million for Local Bus Operating, which must then be divided among 77 transit agencies

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Will Michigan Finally Invest in Transformational Transit?

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After decades of barely even funding maintenance-level investments in public transportation, new legislation just introduced would invest fully $2 billion in transformational transit projects across Michigan over the next decade! The 5-part bill package would allocate $200 million a year for the next ten years for public transit! As sponsor Rep Jason Morgan told the

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