Tell Your Senators that Public Transit Saves Jobs

Documents We're Waiting On

Things We're Waiting For: Tracing $8 Million Sent to CCA During Fairgrounds Sale - Pacific Progressive
Nossaman did research on how to use Fairgrounds money to provide opening capital for the Fair Foundation. $8 million was sent to the California Construction Authority during the sale, and there is documentation that indicates this could be the money for the opening capital. We've asked for the money to be traced, and Interim CEO Doug Lofstrom is giving us the run around.

Tell Your Senators that Public Transit Saves Jobs

The draft being circulated of the Senate's $85 billion jobs bill doesn't have a single dollar to address the crisis in transit funding, which threatens severe cuts to essential service and the loss of thousands of jobs.

We're joining our partners at Transportation for America, asking everyone to

And it's not just transit that's been left out of the Senate jobs bill - there's no funding forinnovative projects that can move us away from foreign oil, not a dime for high-speed rail or Amtrak, no reform of highway funding...the list goes on.

But a recent analysis of the previous economic stimulus package shows us that investments in public transportation have produced twice the jobs of highway projects.

If we are serious about creating and saving jobs, our senators need to insist on investing more in public transportation. Transit operating assistance - the emergency dollars that make sure America's bus drivers, rail operators, and station agents can get paid - keep all Americans moving.

When they don't get funded, bus routes are eliminated, weekend and evening service is reduced on trains and subways...millions of people are stranded at the station. And in difficult times, the economy suffers even more.

Don't let your senators squander this opportunity to make it right - demand that they fund transit operating assistance and other key transportation proposals!