Transportation Equity Network (TEN)

More Transit = More Jobs: New Report

Service Cuts Restored, Thanks to MCU

The Real Red Scare

Rep. Cummings Preaches Equity, Opportunity

TEN Member Builds 'BRIDGE to Opportunity'

A Vote for Opportunity in Michigan

TEN Members Rally for Fair Job Access

Civil Rights Act Webinar: Tools for Equity

Student MetroCards Saved!

Focus on Transportation Equity in NY

More Transit = More Jobs: New Report What would happen if 20 metropolitan areas shifted 50% of their highway funds to transit? They would generate 1,123,674 new transit jobs over a five-year period — for a net gain of 180,150 jobs over five years — without a single dollar of new spending. That's the finding of TEN's new study, More Transit = More Jobs, conducted by the Public Policy Research Center.

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Service Cuts Restored, Thanks to MCU Katie Jansen Larson, Executive Director of TEN member Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU), was featured in a front page St. Louis Post-Dispatch article celebrating the restoration of bus service cuts that MCU helped win. "It is one of the more hopeful things going on in the region right now," she said.

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The Real Red Scare Post by: Laura Barrett Executive Director, Transportation Equity Network Originally posted August 11, 2010 on the Huffington Post If you want a glimpse at what awaits America if we don't change our auto-dependent ways, just look at Russia. In "Stuck," a stunning piece in a recent issue of the New Yorker, Keith Gessen paints a nightmarish vision of Moscow's streets that we're already far too close to.

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Rep. Cummings Preaches Equity, Opportunity TEN member BRIDGE brought together clergy leaders and hundreds of members in Baltimore on Aug. 4 to kick off their "BRIDGE to Opportunity" transit expansion campaign. Congressman Elijah Cummings gave a powerful speech of support. Click Read More for a and transcript of the speech.

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TEN Member Builds 'BRIDGE to Opportunity' TEN member BRIDGE brought together clergy leaders and hundreds of members gathered in Baltimore on Aug. 4 to kick off their 'BRIDGE to Opportunity' transit expansion campaign. Congressman Elijah Cummings gave a powerful speech of support, and WBAL TV covered the event.

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A Vote for Opportunity in Michigan
TEN members MOSES, EZEKIEL, and others in southeast Michigan scored a significant victory Aug. 3 with the overwhelming passage of a transit funding initiative. By more than a 2:1 margin, voters supported funding for the SMART bus system -- which means access to opportunity.

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TEN Members Rally for Fair Job Access On July 24, TEN members UCM and MCU joined a host of social justice organizations in a march on the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, MO, to rally for greater minority and female participation in contract work throughout the St. Louis area.

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Civil Rights Act Webinar: Tools for Equity On TEN's recent Civil Rights Act webinar, 98 attendees learned how to use Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to combat ongoing injustices in their communities. Our four expert presentations are now available for download.

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Student MetroCards Saved! UPROSE Youth Leaders got some good news when the MTA announced that student MetroCards would not be eliminated. Over the course of several months this year, UPROSE Youth Leaders worked with other youth organizers throughout the New York City on a campaign to prevent the loss of student MetroCards.

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Focus on Transportation Equity in NY As New Yorkers brace for a wave of transit cuts this weekend, the good folks at Transportation Nation ride three bus lines that are facing the axe and learn what TEN has seen around the country: service cuts and fare hikes hit low-income people, people of color, older Americans, and Americans with disabilities the hardest.

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