Sign up to testify against bus service reductions in Montgomery County

From Action Committee for Transit/Transit First:

Severe reductions in Ride-On bus service are included in the county budget announced yesterday. The budget sent to the County Council includes a 4.7% reduction in transit funding, which will require elimination of many well-used bus routes. These cutbacks will impose severe hardships on many transit commuters who depend on buses to get to work. For details of the cuts, see the link at the bottom of this message.

While shrinking transit, the budget expands subsidized parking. By subsidizing parking, we encourage commuters to drive alone and create traffic congestion and air pollution.

ACT and its allies in the Transit First! coalition are calling on the county to make transit the priority. Eight million dollars of parking fines that are now used to subsidize money-losing parking garages should be redirected to preserve Ride-On service. For details and links to more information, see Transit First's press release.

Your help is needed. Please write now to the county council and tell them that preserving transit service is more important than subsidizing parking. Send an email to the council (be sure to include your home address).

If you can, speak out at the public hearing on Ride-On cutbacks next Tuesday, March 24. To testify, you must sign up by 5:00 today.

Details are available at the County website, here.