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9/2/2010
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Group lobbies for increased transit funding to create jobs
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Members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) plan to gather today at local unemployment offices in 14 U.S. cities to call for increased transit funding as a way of creating jobs and spurring economic growth.
The rallies are planned to coincide with the release of a new TEN report, “More Transit = More Jobs,” which features rankings of 20 U.S. metro areas by percentage of transit spending; numbers of jobs each metro area could create by shifting 50 percent of current highway spending to transit; and the numbers of jobs each metro area could create with the passage of a transit-friendly national Transportation Authorization Act. The report also includes case studies of the job-creation potential of planned transit projects in Honolulu, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Denver and Portland, Ore.
TEN is a network of more than 350 member organizations in 41 states working toward a goal of building “a more just, prosperous and connected America,” according to a press release.
The rallies are planned to coincide with the release of a new TEN report, “More Transit = More Jobs,” which features rankings of 20 U.S. metro areas by percentage of transit spending; numbers of jobs each metro area could create by shifting 50 percent of current highway spending to transit; and the numbers of jobs each metro area could create with the passage of a transit-friendly national Transportation Authorization Act. The report also includes case studies of the job-creation potential of planned transit projects in Honolulu, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Denver and Portland, Ore.
TEN is a network of more than 350 member organizations in 41 states working toward a goal of building “a more just, prosperous and connected America,” according to a press release.
