Visual learners, watch this video for a preview of the data included in the report!

CCI modeling finds that every $1 billion shifted from highway expansion to transit saves at least $1.7 billion in social and environmental costs.

Small Cities, Big Moves:📍Flagstaff, AZ

With school buses packed and drivers in short supply, the district turned to public transit. Now 1,000+ students ride city buses to school. Voters approved a 70% funding boost to keep it growing.

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Ottawa, Kansas has just 13,000 people, but its public transit helped Will’s grandpa stay independent until age 99. Everyone should be able to get where they need to go, no matter their age or where they live—even if it’s just to the park.

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📍 Hampton, VA — Hampton Roads Transit honored Juneteenth with free fares on all services—bus, rail, ferry, and paratransit—celebrating freedom through mobility.

📍 Los Angeles, CA — Transit agencies, including LA Metro, teamed up with Pride events to make it easier (and more fun) to get there. Who says the party can’t start on the bus?

📍 Columbus, OH — When a June heatwave hit, COTA made fares free so people could ride in air-conditioned buses or get to cooling centers...

…Affordable. Access to transit should never be contingent on one’s ability to pay. Transit investment should establish programs that provide fare relief for those who need it.

…Safe and Accessible. Transit investment should eliminate the full range of limitations and achieve broad-based safety and universal access.

…Economically productive. Better transit expands worker access to jobs, employer access to the workforce, customer access to businesses, and business access to a customer base.

…Sustainable. To avert severe climate change, transit investment must expand access to good bus and train service so transit ridership increases.

…Equitable. Transit investment must prioritize the needs of Black and brown people, people with low incomes, and people with disabilities.

Safiya Ilyas, a recent high school and Seattle Colleges graduate, reflects on the convenience of Seattle’s public transit in her Transit Tuesday story, writing, “While I do have access to a car, I’ve found Seattle’s public transit to be the fastest and most affordable way to get to school.”

"No one should be killed just trying to get to work." In Keith's time as an Amazon driver and warehouse worker, one thing was constant: the struggle to get to work due to a lack of public transit options.

Trump’s funding freeze is a threat to transit that working families rely on. Join us and @gnd-network.bsky.social @americawalks.bsky.social @cplusc.bsky.social from 7:30-8pm ET TONIGHT to hear more about why this is happening and how to stop it!

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Sandra is a sanitation worker with SEIU Local 1 in Cleveland, Ohio. For her, the bus is an important place to connect with her neighbors and community. She knows that the bus is an essential public service and believes drivers deserve good pay and dignity on the job.

#TransitEquityDay

Over the course of this month we’ll be sharing pieces of these stories here, but if you want to read them in full, you can find the report here: transitjustice.org/2025/01/31/w...

from the jobs they have access to, the time and energy they spend getting from place to place, their sense of community, and the cost of supporting themselves and their families. One thing they all have in common: they want to see more investment in transit jobs and infrastructure. (2/)

For #TransitEquityDay, we released a report with Labor Network for Sustainability called Working Families Ride the Bus. #Union members and workers from all over the country shared their experiences with the ways that transit—or lack or transit options—affects everything (1/)