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Without Transit funding, everyone feels the impact

Without Transit funding, everyone feels the impact. Virginia Transportation Conference June 9, 2009. What is Advocacy?

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Without Transit funding, everyone feels the impact

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  1. Without Transit funding, everyone feels the impact Virginia Transportation Conference June 9, 2009

  2. What is Advocacy? Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes — including public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions — that directly affect people’s current lives. Cohen, D., R. de la Vega, G. Watson. 2001. Advocacy for social justice. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press Inc.

  3. Background: • Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 2009 • Transportation team focus on improving mass transit in the Richmond region • Project evolved into action plan to increase awareness and support of transit • Result: develop viral video and website to sustain project beyond LMR

  4. Goal: Make the Richmond Region aware of the contribution that expanded public transit can make in solving many of the problems facing the region in the immediate, near, and distant future. • Objectives: • Create a network of transit advocates in the Richmond Region • Raise awareness by educating our community to the value of public transit to every person in the region • Influence the decision makers in the Richmond Region to make responsible decisions to expand public transit

  5. Advocacy Issues: • Transit Funding • Current funding for transit in the Richmond region is not sustainable • Regional Transportation • GRTC is not a regional transit authority • The provision of transit is more a function of affordability to • local jurisdictions rather than public demand for that service. • Environment • The Richmond Region is NOT meeting federal air quality standards • Using public transit and other alternatives to the SOV are known to improve air quality

  6. Get Involved: • Your help is needed! • Work to enhance the awareness • of public transit’s importance • Our challenges: affordable transportation, workforce access, traffic congestion, and environmental pollution, • to name just a few. • These issues and challenges affect us • all- whether you use the bus, or not

  7. Our Partners:

  8. You can make a difference! Help improve public transit in the Richmond region Join our cause by registering at: www.TransitTalk.com

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