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Public transit can serve as an environmentally-friendly alternative to sprawl-inducing highways, traffic jams, and air pollution, but too often our elected officials favor building more roads over supporting buses, subways, and light rail systems. You can help make sure that our politicians support public transit by organizing a base of voters who care about public transit and want to see more public attention and funding for such projects. The Sierra Club has joined the Transit Vote Campaign, a project organized by US Action. Over the next four months, members participating in Transit Vote will register transit users to vote, educate riders on public transit issues, and participate in get-out-the-vote activities prior to election day. Transit riders are one of the most obvious, under-organized bases to vote against highway-oriented sprawl and for the interests of transit-friendly cities and development. They are a major untapped constituency for environmental and urban concerns and the needs of people of color, people with disabilities, women and low-income people, youth and seniors. As stated in their literature, "Transit Vote is a non-partisan effort to mobilize transit riders around the country to participate in the political process. Through education and information, Transit Vote will register and get riders to vote, and to vote for transit." To find out more about how you can participate in a Transit Vote campaign, or to organize your own campaign, visit www.ctaa.org/transitvote Up to Top | Printer-friendly version of this page |
