A huge thank you to everyone who came out to our 2015 Regional Transit Awards dinner on May 7! It was one of our biggest and best events yet!! Event photos and videos will be available soon, Special congratulations to our award winners: Forward Motion Award for Most Effective Public Servant winner Melanie Piana Unsung Hero […]
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We are TRU are very disappointed that Proposal 1 didn’t pass. Transit systems throughout Michigan needed the extra $115 million a year Prop 1 would have provided!
But now it’s time to move forward. And we need your help:
1) As the road funding debate rages, tell your state legislators to fund a full transportation funding fix that includes transit and doesn’t gut important state services.
2) It is up to us in southeast Michigan to raise our own funds to improve transit, which the RTA will ask voters to do in Nov 2016. Please support TRU’s efforts to get people throughout our region thinking about and sharing why #TransitMatters!
3) Voters in Nov 2016 will need a clear, simple plan to vote on. The RTA will be developing a Regional Transit Action Plan over the next six months. Join TRU and the RTA Tuesday May 12 at Campus Martius for the kickoff of a region-wide discussion on the transit system our region wants, needs, and is willing to pay for!
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TRU supports passage of Prop 1 on May 5, 2015 because it will increase funding for public transit and other transportation needs without harming schools, cities, low-income families, or other important budget priorities.
While it is a complex proposal that is not anyone’s ideal solution, Michigan will be better off if it passes than if it fails. That is the most critical evaluation of any proposal.
Prop 1 will provide essential funding for important priorities:
Prop 1 will provide $115 million per year in funding for public transit agencies throughout Michigan above current levels, once fully implemented.
Of that, over $50 million a year will support DDOT and SMART (together), likely enabling expanded bus service for seniors, low-income workers, and other riders.
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Spring is a great time to try out new ways to commute! This month, you can even win great prizes just for trying!! May is Commuter Challenge time. Sign up at www.DetroitCommuterChallenge.com and enter each day you commute some way other than driving solo. That could be: Riding the bus, whether SMART or DDOT, Taking
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Please be advised that the TRU office is without office phones or internet service and may be so until Friday April 24. Apparently there was a cable breakage April 9 in downtown Detroit and much of the Guardian Building is without AT&T service. AT&T estimates that it may be Friday before it is repaired and service is fully
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