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The National Campaign for Transit Justice works with grassroots organizers across the country to ensure Congress invests in the future of public transit. https://transitjustice.org/
We saved transit.
The transit fiscal cliff has been averted! Earlier today, Illinois lawmakers passed a $1.5B package to fund and reform transit.
Thank you all for your support in getting us to this moment. We did it y'all! 🎉🎉🎉
Read the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition's statement here:
ilcleanjobs.org/2025/10/31/l...
We signed! Thanks to @4transitjustice.bsky.social for organizing the letter.
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/20/a...
Visual learners, watch this video for a preview of the data included in the report!
Climate and Community has released an exciting report, “Letting People Move,” authored by Kira McDonald, Emmett Hopkins, and Narayan Gopinathan.
This report focuses on measuring the real cost of highways and making policy recommendations for Congress, State Legislatures, and the DOT.
CCI modeling finds that every $1 billion shifted from highway expansion to transit saves at least $1.7 billion in social and environmental costs.
Today @cplusc.bsky.social released a new report which models impacts of shifting $1 billion from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending:
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
Time with family shouldn’t be a luxury only drivers can afford.
Read Vanessa’s full story in our Working Families Ride The Bus report. transitjustice.org/2025/01/31/w...
Vanessa’s sister-in-law Belinda spends two hours a day on the bus, time she could spend helping her daughter with homework.
This is what the DC Transportation Equity Network calls a transportation time tax: the extra time transit riders lose because our system prioritizes cars.
Lawmakers ended the spring session without fixing the transit fiscal cliff. Now, CTA, Metra, and Pace are planning for 40% service cuts. Illinois needs a special legislative session this summer to secure $1.5 billion to fix and fund transit.
Take Action! activetrans.quorum.us/campaign/128...
What would happen if Chicago lost public transit? Research from MIT and Argonne shows the region would face more traffic, higher emissions, over $35 billion in annual costs, and serious harm to low-income and minority communities.
Concerned? activetrans.quorum.us/campaign/128...
Small Cities, Big Moves:📍Flagstaff, AZ
With school buses packed and drivers in short supply, the district turned to public transit. Now 1,000+ students ride city buses to school. Voters approved a 70% funding boost to keep it growing.
Read our report: transitjustice.org/2025/04/29/s...
Ottawa, Kansas has just 13,000 people, but its public transit helped Will’s grandpa stay independent until age 99. Everyone should be able to get where they need to go, no matter their age or where they live—even if it’s just to the park.
Keep reading: transitjustice.org/2025/03/11/t...
📍 Hampton, VA — Hampton Roads Transit honored Juneteenth with free fares on all services—bus, rail, ferry, and paratransit—celebrating freedom through mobility.
📍 Los Angeles, CA — Transit agencies, including LA Metro, teamed up with Pride events to make it easier (and more fun) to get there. Who says the party can’t start on the bus?
📍 Columbus, OH — When a June heatwave hit, COTA made fares free so people could ride in air-conditioned buses or get to cooling centers...
Summer is the season to celebrate transit! ☀️ Across the country, agencies are stepping up to keep people moving, safe, and connected.
…Affordable. Access to transit should never be contingent on one’s ability to pay. Transit investment should establish programs that provide fare relief for those who need it.
…Safe and Accessible. Transit investment should eliminate the full range of limitations and achieve broad-based safety and universal access.
…Economically productive. Better transit expands worker access to jobs, employer access to the workforce, customer access to businesses, and business access to a customer base.
…Sustainable. To avert severe climate change, transit investment must expand access to good bus and train service so transit ridership increases.
…Equitable. Transit investment must prioritize the needs of Black and brown people, people with low incomes, and people with disabilities.
We all want good transit. But what does "good transit" mean to The National Campaign for Transit Justice? Getting skipped by a packed bus? Waiting an hour in the rain with no shelter? Absolutely not. Good transit is…
Since 2020, NCTJ has fought for better public transit by leading trainings, gathering transit stories, and building power. Now we're expanding our organizing reach on social media. Follow our accounts on BlueSky, Instagram, and X (@4transitjustice) to stay in the loop.
King County’s Free Fares For Youth make public transit many students’ first choice to get around the city. The frequency of the bus and Light Rail allowed Safiya to easily get between high school and running start classes. Late run times allowed focused library study time without rushing home.
Safiya Ilyas, a recent high school and Seattle Colleges graduate, reflects on the convenience of Seattle’s public transit in her Transit Tuesday story, writing, “While I do have access to a car, I’ve found Seattle’s public transit to be the fastest and most affordable way to get to school.”
The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired.
The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.
From me (w/scoops) 🧵
Read Keith's full story, as well as the stories of working families and #union members across the country, in our Working families Ride the Bus report: https://transitjustice.org/2025/01/31/working-families-ride-the-bus/
"No one should be killed just trying to get to work." In Keith's time as an Amazon driver and warehouse worker, one thing was constant: the struggle to get to work due to a lack of public transit options.