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Double Your Impact When You Donate to TRU by Sept 30!

If you want to make an impact to improve Detroit area transit, you won’t want to miss this opportunity: Through Friday Sept 30, every dollar you donate to TRU will be matched dollar for dollar!

All of TRU’s work educating, engaging, and advocating for the quality transit our region needs depends on donations from transit supporters like you.

Your gift can go further if you give by Friday and help us maximize the matching gift from a generous supporter of up to $30,000! Don’t miss this opportunity!

Please donate to TRU today.

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Exciting Regional Express Bus Service and DDOT Service Expansions!

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While most of the major transit service improvements are dependent on passing the Regional Transit ballot measure this November, there are some important improvements starting now! New regional transit service launching – Reflex!  RTA, DDOT, and SMART have partnered up to launch a pilot project called Reflex. Starting Sept 3-5, you can travel quickly and

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On November 8, the People Will Decide!

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The Regional Transit Authority has officially voted to place the regional transit funding measure on the Nov 8 ballot! This is a truly momentous occasion: For the very first time, people throughout all 4 counties of southeast Michigan will have a chance to vote on investing in improved regional transit.

It looked for a while that this day would not come. When the Oakland and Macomb board members refused to support placing it on the ballot on July 21 and again on July 28, we feared regional transit efforts would be delayed for years!

Getting this on the ballot did come at a price – each County and the City of Detroit will all have to affirmatively approve all future changes in the transit plan and allocations of state and federal funding coming to southeast Michigan. While the sausage-making isn’t always pretty, we got the outcome we needed.

Time to get down to work persuading people throughout southeast Michigan to VOTE YES for RTA on November 8!

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