Regional Transit Plan

The Newly Proposed Regional Transit: Move More People to More Places More Frequently

The Regional Transit Authority is considering a new possible Regional Transit Plan and wants your feedback! A team led by Wayne County Executive Warren Evans has spent the past year listening to people’s feedback, concerns, and complaints about the Regional Transit Plan that was adopted by the RTA in 2016, but never funded. They worked hard […]

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A powerful case for transit and call-to-action from Wayne County Exec Warren Evans

Tuesday night, Warren Evans gave one of the most compelling and well-reasoned transit speeches this region has ever heard. Here are a few highlights of his State of the County address: Transit is the intersection of moral and economic imperatives…. While the moral reasons, alone, should move us to improve transit, I’m okay focusing on the

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Renewed Hope for Regional Transit?

Ever since the narrow defeat of the Regional Transit ballot measure in November 2016, people have been asking: “What’s next?” For 13 months, the silence has been deafening. The silence from the Regional Transit Authority and the Counties’ leaders has been deafening. The resignation of first one RTA CEO then 8 months later the Interim

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Help Share Information and Build Support for Regional Transit

How much do your friends know about regional transit? You may know that the RTA developed a great regional transit plan that would provide a huge help for people trying to get to work, for seniors getting to appointments, and much more. But how much do your friends know? What about your family, neighbors and

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Connecting People to Jobs: Comparing Current and Potential Future Transit

One of the core purposes of transit is to connect people to jobs. Nationally, half of all transit trips are to get to work. So the first in a series evaluating our region’s current and potential future regional transit will focus on connecting people to jobs. How does our region’s transit do at getting people

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