Urge your representative to cosponsor the resolution supporting equal funding for transit and highways

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Give public transit and highways equal funding.

One of the biggest reasons that our country fails to provide convenient, affordable, and rapid public transportation service in cities and towns of all sizes is the fact that highways receive 80 percent of all federal transportation funding. This is all due to an arbitrary policy started in 1982 that limits transit to only 20 percent of these funds.

For almost four decades, Congress has severely underfunded public transportation, leaving millions of Americans reliant on deteriorating transit systems with infrequent, inconvenient, and unreliable service—or leaving them without any transit option at all. This particularly hurts people of color, who make up 60 percent of all transit riders, and over one million rural households that rely on transit.

It's time to fix this. Send a message to your House representative urging them to cosponsor a groundbreaking new resolution calling for equal funding for highways and transit.

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Message for all members of the House of Representatives

Subject: Cosponsor a resolution calling for funding transit and highways equally

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Public transit is essential to our community but has been severely underfunded for decades. Please join over 30 other members of the House of Representatives in cosponsoring a resolution calling for equal funding for highways and public transit. This resolution recognizes that inadequate funding for public transit is a significant contributor to racial & economic inequity and the global climate crisis. This outdated near 40-year precedent of an “80-20” split between highway and transit funding does not reflect the needs of our citizens, businesses, and communities for safe, reliable, and convenient public transportation, and it ignores data demonstrating that bold investments in transit reduce congestion, mobility costs for consumers, and greenhouse gas emissions. Transit is an essential lifeline for the over one million rural households without a car and millions of Americans of color who are disproportionately reliant on public transit. 2.8 million essential workers and millions more rely on transit to access their jobs, food, and health care. Rebuilding a stronger, sustainable economy will require robust, reliable, and frequent transit and we must fund transit equitably like the vital public good that it is. I urge you to support this important resolution. To cosponsor, please contact Don Andres of Rep. Jesús G. "Chuy" García’s office (don.andres@mail.house.gov). You can read the full text of the resolution here: https://chuygarcia.house.gov/sites/chuygarcia.house.gov/files/Transit%20Parity%20Resolution.pdf

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