Fully one-third of America’s global warming pollution comes from transportation, mostly from driving personal cars.  Congress is considering important legislation to address global warming, but so far, the legislation has been mostly silent on the need to address how much people drive.  We need to make sure they fully address transportation alternatives too! 95 percent […]

    One important silver lining to the dark cloud of high gas prices is that a lot of people are thinking about public transit.  Record numbers of people are riding, and many more are complaining about gas prices but don’t know that they have options.     To help make sure metro Detroiters know about the

    Too many elected officials claim that their constituents don’t care about public transit, that they don’t hear much about it from their community.  We need your help to prove them wrong!!      TRU is partnering with MOSES to hold a series of public transit rallies in each county to clearly show our elected officials

"We must invest in our nation’s infrastructure, and we must reverse climate change. By investing in public transit, we can do both at the same time," said U.S. House Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) rail conference in San Francisco, pointing out that rebuilding America is a combined national security,

Residents of large metropolitan areas have significantly smaller carbon footprints than the typical American, according to new research from the Brookings Institution. In comparing metro regions to one another, Brookings found that those that are dense, have rail transit and lower vehicle miles being driven generally have smaller carbon footprints on a per capita basis.