Dozens of organizations join the call – let’s make 2024 the year of transit

Dear elected leaders in the Denver metro area,

We, the undersigned, call on you in 2024 to prioritize a significant increase in long-term, dedicated funding for transit service in the Denver metro area. To achieve regional goals equitably such as tackling climate change, reducing air pollution, and increasing safety, affordability and equity of opportunity, we need better local and regional bus and rail service that comes more frequently including later into the evenings and over the weekends. We also need safe and accessible bus stops with basic infrastructure like benches, lighting and shelter and sidewalk access leading up to it, and transit infrastructure and operational improvements that improve transit speed and reliability.

Let’s make 2024 the year of transit.

Sincerely,

Rudy Gonzales, Servicios de La Raza
Renée M Chacon, Womxn From The Mountain
Matt Frommer, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project
Jaime Lewis, Colorado Cross Disability Coalition
Coleen Samuels, Denver Regional Mobility & Access Council
Damon McLeese, Access Gallery
Tammy Bellofatto , Bayaud Enterprises
Becky English, The Sierra Club
Portia Prescott, Rocky Mountain NAACP
Erica Hine, Transportation Solutions
Richard Bamber, Greater Denver Transit
Rob Toftness, Denver Bicycle Lobby
Marie Venner, Colorado Small Business Alliance and Steve Douglas, former City Council
Members and Planning Commissioners
Fran Aguirre, President, Unite North Metro Denver
Thomas Lundy, Co-Chair of the CDP Energy & Environment Initiative
Dr. David Mintzer, Hospitalist, on the board of Colorado Physicians for Social Responsibility
Dr. Velma Campbell & Jamie Valdez, Colorado Lead, Mothers Out Front
Emmett Hobley, Co-Chair, Montbello Neighborhood Improvement Association
Maura Stephens, Coordinating Committee, System Change Not Climate Change
Jan Brown, Citizens’ Alliance for a Sustainable Englewood
J.D. Ruybal, COCRN Colorado Community Rights Network
Kristi Douglas, Co-chair, North Range Concerned Citizens
Trupti Suthar, Sunnyside United Neighbors, Inc (SUNI)
Philip Beck and Elizabeta Stacishin, Co-founders, Indivisible Ambassadors
Bridget Walsh, Greater Park Hill Community
Paddy McClelland, Co-Chair, Wall of Women
Shannon Francis, Director, Spirit of the Sun
Moshe Kornfeld, Coordinator, CO Jewish Climate Action
Fred Kirsch, Director, Community for Sustainable Energy
Stefanie Klass, Co-Chair, Colorado Call to Action and CatholicNetwork
Debbie Thornburg James, Mayfair Park Neighborhood Association Board
Nic Venner, Metro State Student and Our Children’s Trust Juliana Plaintiff
Amy Petré Hill, Founder and Community Chaplain, Mental Health & Inclusion Ministries
Rachael Lehman, Healthy Communities Chair, I-70/Vasquez Blvd Citizens Advisory Committee
Paolo C. Solorzano of the Transit Riders Alliance and Colorado Cross Disabilities Coalition
Anna Ramirez, Working for Racial Equity and Southwest Organization for Sustainability
Patrick Santana, Vibrant Littleton and Littleton Business Alliance
Yadira Sanchez, mother and longtime Denver resident Elyria Swansea community
Karen Bueno, Leaders Team, Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action
Harmony Cummings, Co-Founder, Green House Connection Center
Jeff Hart, former EPA staff member and Co-Founder of Save EPA
Rev. Mark Meeks, Pastor, Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church
Rabbi Eliot J Baskin, D Min, with Together Colorado
Lance Longenbohn, President/Business Agent ATU Local 1001
Danny Katz, CoPIRG
Alana Miller, NRDC
Molly McKinley, Denver Streets Partnership
Renee Larrate, Conservation Colorado
Steven Haden, Envision:You
Stacey Shigaya, Sakura Foundation
Mario M. Carrera, CLLARO
Reginald C. Holmes, FACEIT Community, Inc
Rev. Reginald C. Holmes, New Covenant Christian Church, Inc
Paola Ramírez, RESCHOOL Colorado
Olga Gonzalez, Cultivando
Milo Marquez , Latino Education Coalition
Jen Clanahan, Mountain Mamas
Lorena Zimmer, Denver Health and Hospital Authority
Kate Redweik, Center for Work Education and Employmen