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:  [...]

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.

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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.

The federal gas tax isn’t covering our needs.

Federal gas tax is how Congress has funded public transit for the last 70 years or so.

This article explains why the gas tax has not kept pace with the cost of transportation.

The evolution of Metrorail, 1976-2010.

I wonder what Chicago’s map would look like.