Despite being several days late, the Michigan Legislature finally passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2026, which started Oct 1 of 2025. Our 9 months of advocacy and activism paid off!! The new MI budget includes nearly $160 million more for public transit – including both bus operating and transformational projects! As we had long […]
Advocacy Works! $160 million more for transit in MI budget! Read More »
Despite Michigan voters passing over 90% of transit ballot measures across the state over the past 10 years, Michigan legislators have not made transit funding a priority over the past two decades. Based on current proposals, Michigan’s 77 transit agencies could get the lowest state reimbursement ever, even as need for transit grows. Even as our state juggles
Michigan leaders need to invest in the full transportation system! Read More »
Michigan legislators are deciding in the next few months how to spend $6-9 billion on transportation. They need to hear from you on how they should spend it. TRU and allies from all across Michigan will be bringing 100 transit supporters together to talk to our state policymakers about how essential transit is for Michiganders
Join our Transit Day at the Capitol: March 12! Read More »
More than two dozen groups joined together on Rosa Parks birthday to urge Michigan leaders to invest in improving Michigan’s entire transportation system. Challenging Michigan’s leaders to meet the moment, the groups acknowledged that Michigan’s transportation system has long been underfunded and expressed excitement by the possibilities presented by the current debate over a ‘roads
Groups Push for a Transportation System that Serves ALL Michiganders Read More »
For TRU, as for many of us, 2024 was a year of both wins and losses. A challenging aspect of our work is the fact that to advance transit, we need to work on many fronts: local, state and even federal. To do that, we need to keep growing our power as an organization –
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