Fund Maryland Public Transit

Fully Fund Maryland Public Transit

Tell Your State Representatives to pass the Transit Safety and Investment Act! #SaveMDtransit

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Legislators need to hear from concerned Marylanders!

MTA’s bus, rail and MARC system is failing because it needs $2 billion in capital funding to address deferred maintenance and critical upgrades necessary to maintain service. The Transit Safety and Investment Act will fill this gap!

MTA’s system needs to be properly funded to provide reliable service and protect rider and transit worker safety. Countless residents, including hospital workers, grocery clerks, childcare workers, students and other employees need reliable public transit to get to work and other essential destinations everyday. In a public health crisis, global climate crisis, and economic recession, we need to fully fund transit.

Send an email and tweet to your state legislators asking them to vote for the Transit Safety and Investment Act. Use the form to the right (or below on mobile); click “Continue” after you tweet to send the email.

It's time to invest in public transit, not decimate it.

We demand that the Hogan administration:

Show us the money. Gov. Hogan cut the state’s share of MDOT MTA’s budget by $188 million, a 21% reduction. No other MDOT modal administration sees its state investment cut by more than 8%. Why?
Support essential workers. Roughly four in 10 transit riders are essential workers — the people who hold our communities together, such as grocery clerks, nurses, lab techs, and sanitation and utility workers.
Prioritize transit. There's more to transportation than highways. Let’s get people out of cars to reduce congestion and pollution.
Support Maryland’s economy. There is no recovery if a large portion of our workforce cannot get to work safely and reliably. Transit is essential to move our economy forward.
Support communities of color. Investing in smart, clean, reliable, public transit should be a right, not a privilege. The time is now.
Build back better. Maryland should be a leader in public transit, not the system with the most breakdowns.

Watch the video below to hear from Maryland transit riders why we need the Maryland Transit Safety and Investment Act.

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