Tell your legislators: Increase funding for buses and trains
Local government leaders call for more transit funding from the state
21 local government leaders called on the legislature to prioritize increasing long-term, dedicated funding for transit service.
Dear State Legislators,
We, the undersigned, call on you in 2024 to prioritize increasing long-term, dedicated funding for transit service. 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,
Darrell Watson, Denver City Council
Flor Alvidrez, Denver City Council
Paul Kashmann, Denver City
Amanda Sawyer, Denver City Council
Sarah Parady, Denver City Council
Shontel M. Lewis, Denver City Council
Rachel Hultin, City of Wheat Ridge
Claire Levy, Boulder County
Ryan Schuchard, City of Boulder
Mercedes Valdez, City of Edgewater
Amy Ford, Executive Director, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, City and County of Denver
Alison Coombs, City of Aurora
Jeslin Shahrezaei, City of Lakewood
Jacob LaBure City, City of Lakewood
Hannah Gay Keao, City of Edgewater
Jessica Sandgren City of Thornton
Amanda Sandoval, Denver City Council
Nicole Speer, City of Boulder
Renée M. Chacon. Commerce City
Scott Ohm, City of Wheat Ridge
Austen Ward, City and County of Broomfield
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Danny Katz
Executive Director, CoPIRG
Danny has been the director of CoPIRG for over a decade. Danny co-authored a groundbreaking report on the state’s transit, walking and biking needs and is a co-author of the annual “State of Recycling” report. He also helped write a 2016 Denver initiative to create a public matching campaign finance program and led the early effort to eliminate predatory payday loans in Colorado. Danny serves on the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT) Efficiency and Accountability Committee, CDOT's Transit and Rail Advisory Committee, RTD's Reimagine Advisory Committee, the Denver Moves Everyone Think Tank, and the I-70 Collaborative Effort. Danny lobbies federal, state and local elected officials on transportation electrification, multimodal transportation, zero waste, consumer protection and public health issues. He appears frequently in local media outlets and is active in a number of coalitions. He resides in Denver with his family, where he enjoys biking and skiing, the neighborhood food scene and raising chickens.
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