Illustration courtesy of Shinsuke Arai aka dead-robot, www.dead-robot.com by Art Cernoia So you thought your bus fare paid for your ride? Not hardly. When you step onto your local bus and swipe your ticket, you may think you’re paying for your ride. And you are…sort of. Your ticket covers about 16% of the cost of Read more about Public Transit Economics 101[…]
Take action: Sign our letter for transit funding here! Immediate Action Must Be Taken to Keep Riders Safe and Expand Transit Funding. Cleveland, OH, March 23, 2020 Today, Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT) will host a virtual press conference to call for emergency state and federal funding for public transit and immediate actions to be Read more about Press Release: Transit Riders Host Virtual Press Conference and COVID-19 Open Letter to Ohio Elected Officials and GCRTA Board[…]
REMINDER: Nominations for CPT Coordinating Committee! Riders Meeting on Monday! Interested in making public transit better in Cleveland? Join CPT’s Coordinating Committee. CPT will be taking nominations from the floor on Monday night. We also will take nominations by email to info@clefortransit.org. Deadline is April 1st. You can nominate yourself or another CPT member. Join Read more about Nominations Open for CPT Leadership & Transit State Budget Update[…]
We need you to continue to contact Senate President Obhof! We have come a long way. Thanks to you, the state budget was passed that included a fix for massive losses in sales tax revenue to transit agencies from the loss of the Medicaid MCO tax. The fix was included by Senator Matt Dolan and Read more about September News: MCO Update, Vote & Join us at the Urban Film Fest![…]
We have come a long way. Thanks to you, the state budget was passed that included a fix for massive losses in sales tax revenue to transit agencies. The fix was included by Senator Matt Dolan and is known as the Dolan amendment. No thanks to Governor Kasich, he vetoed the Dolan amendment out of Read more about Tell OH Senate President Larry Obhof to Vote on the MCO Tax Today![…]
State Budget Update – Time Sensitive! As we have mentioned previously, GCRTA will lose nearly $20 million starting 2019, due to changes to Ohio’s sales tax policies. That would amount to 10% service cuts and 150 layoffs! Previously, we asked you to call Matt Dolan, and you did! Senator Dolan has proposed an amendment that Read more about URGENT: Take Action TODAY to Prevent Massive Cuts in Transit Funding![…]
Thanks to all who came out to our event with TransitCenter last week. We packed the Market Garden Brewery with 100+ people! We heard from Jon Orcutt, director of Advocacy for TransitCenter on ways other cities have improved public transportation. We also heard from local officials. Dale Miller, County Council member and head of the Read more about Thanks for coming out! We need you to get involved.[…]
Behind the scenes we have been working hard on increasing state funding for transit. Ohio is one of the worst states for funding public transportation. We only spend 63 cents per person on transit, less than 1.5% of Ohio’s transportation budget. Due to state budget changes in the way Medicaid is taxed, RTA will be Read more about Send a Message to Your State Senator to Fund Transit. #63cents[…]