The American Planning Association is made up of 40,000 professionals who work in the development of communities — physical, economic, and social — at the local, regional, state and national levels. Every two years, they ask experts in the field to contribute to The State of Transportation Planning report that focuses on current topics in […]
TRU Helped Create National State of Transportation Planning 2020 Report Read More »
Many of us can and must stay and home and shelter-in-place. That’s what TRU staff are doing. Yet we know many people must continue to go places on the bus: Nurses and janitors need to reach hospitals, grocery clerks and pharmacy techs need to get to stores, and anyone without a car still needs food
Still on the Bus? Please Share Your Experience! Read More »
Public transit workers are absolutely essential. They make it possible for nurses, janitors, and grocery workers to to get to work, accepting significant risks to their own health to do so. Help us thank Detroit transit drivers, mechanics, bus cleaners, and other workers by adding your name to this thank you poster. We will add
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To spotlight and humanize the impact of Coronavirus and people who can’t shelter in place, The New York Times published an image-laden feature of riding the bus in Detroit, calling the bus “a rolling symbol of the disparity in how this virus is affecting Americans.” The No. 17 bus began chugging westward across Detroit. On
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Ask anyone close to TRU, and they likely know Patty Fedewa. Patty has been a staunch transit advocate for over 20 years, and a TRU affiliate since 2001. Patty carries a powerful voice in the Detroit transit community, speaking out against fare increases and service disruptions. She was even President of TRU in 2007. As
“We can all be activists”: Patty Fedewa Read More »
