Moving Transit Forward National Sign-on Letter

Dear United States Senators,

We offer our full support of Senators Van Hollen and Fetterman’s “Moving Transit Forward Act.” The bill will provide greater quality transit to communities across the country.

With its new formula for operating expenses, this vital legislation will assist transit agencies in big and small cities to increase or improve transit service. This new funding could also support safety and security enhancements, and includes a “maintenance of effort” requirement to ensure continued state and local government support. It will help increase service frequency, provide additional hours of service, and add new, frequent service to underserved communities.

For decades, the federal government has supported the cost of operating aviation through air traffic control and the cost of shipping through investment in ports and the management of locks and dams in the inland waterways. These are essential services for the movement of goods and people. Operating high-quality transit is just as essential to getting people to employment and to giving businesses access to talent and customers.

The pandemic has starkly demonstrated that public transit is not just important; it’s essential to our communities, local economies, and the lives of millions of people across the country. Essential workers rely on and operate transit, small businesses depend on transit, and historically marginalized communities depend on transit. Transit is not just a key component of economic recovery, it’s the lifeline to a more environmentally sustainable society and a road to equity for disconnected communities, rural, urban, and suburban.

While Congress has taken vital steps in recent years to fund transit, including the bipartisan infrastructure law, the fact of the matter is that the lack of congressional action on operations funding has led to critical funding shortfalls at numerous transit agencies and has left many on the verge of a fiscal cliff.

The Moving Transit Forward Act will help fix that.

We hope you will support and cosponsor this vital piece of legislation to ensure public transit does not just recover from COVID but expands to create more sustainable and prosperous communities.

Sincerely,

National Campaign for transit Justice | 3518 South Edmunds Street | Seattle, WA 98118

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