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Public Transportation
During 2002, CCJ expanded its statewide coalition of
citizens, advocacy groups, and
leaders from business, labor and
industry to address the status of
public transportation in
Pennsylvania and formed the
Campaign to Build Pennsylvania
Public Transportation. The purpose
of this campaign is to ensure
sufficient and continued dedicated
funding for mass transit by
working with elected officials to
introduce new initiatives and by
building statewide support for a
well-funded, safe, affordable, and
accessible public transportation
system.
Current Public Transit Issues:
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Reauthorization of the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century (TEA3) is in progress at the federal
level. This funding has provided not
only highway dollars, but also money for
public transportation. Congress is currently
considering a number of proposals to reduce
funding for public transportation and some
Senators are even floating the idea of
discontinuing funds for public transit
altogether. Please call your Representative
in the House as well as Senators Specter and
Santorum and urge them to continue funding
public transit though the reauthorization of
TEA3 (see
policy statement on TEA3).
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