Transit Advocacy
Advocates: The Senate’s Chance to Ensure America’s Public Transit Future Is Now
Congress is in the process of writing America's next big transportation bill — and more than 100 organizations are demanding it deliver for transit.
October 20, 2025
Emergency Rally: Advocates Demand Gov. Newsom ‘Fund Transit Now’
All the major transit advocacy groups assembled Monday morning in downtown San Francisco to demand the city's former mayor (Governor Gavin Newsom) intervene and stop the cancellation of a vital $750 million state loan intended to keep the city moving.
September 8, 2025
Katie Wilson’s Success in Seattle Shows Again that Urbanism Is A Winning Campaign Issue
The transit advocate's strong early performance in Seattle's mayoral primary is rekindling a national conversation about the power of bold transportation reform to win at the ballot box.
August 11, 2025
This Philadelphia Council Member Wants To Stand Up to Trump By Investing in Mobility For the Poorest
We sat down with Council Member Nicolas O'Rourke to talk about how he wants to build on the city's Zero Fare pilot — and why prioritizing the poor is more essential now than ever.
April 23, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Themed Rock Music
Meet a band that writes exclusively about the car-free life on public transit. And it rocks!
October 3, 2024
It’s Officially Transit Month
The San Francisco Transit Riders, Seamless Bay Area, and other advocates celebrate buses, trains, ferries, and the people who make them run.
September 6, 2024
Are Memphis’s Massive Transit Cuts The Start of an Alarming Trend?
Memphis's iconic trolley service was recently shut down — and now, as agencies across America come up against hard fiscal realities, much of its bus service is on the chopping block, too.
September 3, 2024
Calling Out In Transit: ‘Train Lovers for Harris-Walz’ Raise $12K in One Zoom Room
The goal was to raise money and to galvanize attention on the least weird thing around: good public transit.
August 19, 2024
New Transportation Equity Dashboard Finds Some Cities Trailing
"[Chicago transit is] falling behind in a post-COVID world," the report's creators say.
July 1, 2024
‘A Petition, a Website, and a T-shirt’: Ann Arbor Advocates Share Tips for Fighting Highway Expansions
Ann Arbor advocates helped get a destructive and wasteful highway expansion thrown out — and they have some ideas on how you can, too.
June 10, 2024
