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By Karen Samelson
Broken funding, better future: Fixing public transit with RTA
Tuesday, May 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Wauwatosa Public Library, 7635 W North Ave., Wauwatosa
Join the Sierra Club Great Waters on May 26 for a free program looking at options for fixing public transit with regional transit authorities.
State funding for public transit has been frozen since 2010 with no adjustment for inflation. And taxing authorities to fund transit are not permissible under current state law. This has led to a decrease in reliability and cuts in service for transit service across the state. In Milwaukee, MCTS, one of the Midwest’s largest transit agencies, and the largest transit agency in the country without its own funding source, is facing a fiscal crisis.
Wisconsin transit advocates want to address transit funding and RTAs in the next legislative session. Come learn why transit matters and what needs to be done in the near and long term to give Wisconsin the public transit it needs.
Find more information here. https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001j9VbgIAE
The Great Waters Group is the local, four-county affiliate (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties) of the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. In addition to protecting every person’s right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying and legal action.
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