Bad news – efforts to increase transit funding this year have died.
Good news – the bills allowing and supporting a non-profit Woodward streetcar line passed.
The broad, diverse coalition of supporters, including legislators, road builders, MDOT officials, transit agencies and numerous others, have vowed to start the effort again early next year. There is broad understanding that there is a transportation funding crisis, but not yet a willingness to pay more to solve it.
We continue to need your help:
- Please join/donate today. We can’t do this work alone and we can’t do it for free. Please give what you can.
- Write a letter to the editor of your local paper, call into your favorite radio show and/or comment on related blogs and online forums. Help make sure that with every pothole, every late bus, every icy road, people remember that our legislature was this year unwilling to invest in Michigan’s transportation infrastructure!
- Join us at a Transit Policy meeting on Wednesday, January 14 at 6pm at the TRU office to strategize for next year.
Enjoy the holidays and get ready for an exciting new year!