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Tell the Region’s Leaders: Support Region-Wide Transit Now!

After years of bicker and months of negotiating, will our region’s leaders finally come to agreement on the next steps for regional transit?

Take Action NOW: Tell your county leaders that we need quick action on a region-wide transit system with no holes in it! Call them directly or use our easy online action tool to edit a pre-drafted email message to them.

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Don't Miss The State of the Region's Transit 2018!

Join us Wednesday evening January 31 for 
The State of the Region’s Transit: TRU 2018 Annual Meeting and Awards Reception
Top leaders from the area’s transit agencies will provide updates on their progress in 2017 and plans for 2018, then will take your questions. The event will also feature presentation of Regional Transit Awards and election of TRU’s Board of Directors (by TRU members). 
It will be at TechTown Detroit just off Woodward in midtown from 6:00pm until 8:00pm.

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Don’t Miss The State of the Region’s Transit 2018!

Join us Wednesday evening January 31 for 
The State of the Region’s Transit: TRU 2018 Annual Meeting and Awards Reception

Top leaders from the area’s transit agencies will provide updates on their progress in 2017 and plans for 2018, then will take your questions. The event will also feature presentation of Regional Transit Awards and election of TRU’s Board of Directors (by TRU members). 

It will be at TechTown Detroit just off Woodward in midtown from 6:00pm until 8:00pm.

Don’t Miss The State of the Region’s Transit 2018! Read More »

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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The end of the RTA as we know it?

Who’s in charge of regional transit? It’s supposed to be the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) which was created by state law to explicitly coordinate and improve public transit throughout the four counties of southeast Michigan. Yet on Thursday, November 16, the Regional Transit Authority appears to give up and close up shop. At their Nov

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