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Senate Hearing: Public Transportation: Priorities and Challenges for Reauthorization

You can watch online via the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Website.

Thursday, May 19, 2011
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
538 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

The witness on Panel I will be:  The Honorable Peter Rogoff,
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The witnesses on
Panel II will be:  [...]

Transit Meeting
Saturday May 7th at 10am
El Pollo Real
3823 W 31st Street
Agenda Items
Proposed 31st Street Bus Service
IWW Bus Coop

DC Visit
Freedom Riders
National Train Day

CHICAGO – Thursday, February 17, 2010, labor and community groups united in a downtown demonstration for transit – for jobs, service and clean air. The demonstration was part of a series of national actions coordinated by Transit Riders for Public Transportation – a national civil rights and environmental justice campaign to shape federal transportation policy.

Little [...]

International President Larry Hanley convened representatives of all of the major transit and labor groups working to address the mass transit crisis in the United States.

Reformer Elected to Head ATU Transit Union | Labor Notes.

CTA rehiring nearly half of those laid off last year :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State.

Two senators eye gas-tax hike to pay for highways and bridges – The Hill’s E2-Wire.

This money could help pay for mass transit, too.