Presentation: Flex Funding Basics
Green New Deal Network’s Giancarlo Valdetaro and Climate and Community Institute’s Emmett Hopkins walk us through the basic of flexing state DOT funding and introduce CCI’s flex funding tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX_LWEl3B6A How do we fund transportation? We fund transportation through laws like IIJA/BIL States receive “formula” funds for highways through a set of different programs Each […]
Transit Tuesday: Lisa Miller
I started working when I was 14. For decades, $9.66 an hour was the most I had ever made in my life. I’m far from the only Kansas City resident whose low wages required me to use the bus as my main mode of transportation.
It’s a lifeline for me and thousands of people in Kansas City. It’s how we get to work, to the doctor, to run errands, and live our daily lives.
