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    • Organizations and officials ask Congress to help public transit during the coronavirus

      By David Alpert     March 24th, 2020

      Ridership on public transit systems nationwide has plummeted and many, including Metro, are actively discouraging people from riding unless absolutely necessary. This is going to obliterate transit systems' budgets, and so over 220 elected officials and organizations signed a letter to Congress on March 18 asking for emergency funding for transit in a coronavirus relief bill.

    • Have senators? Ask them to let cities and states shape how autonomous vehicles affect us all

      By David Alpert     October 3rd, 2017

      Congress is poised to take away many of the potential tools cities and states could use to shape the way automatic vehicles affect our transportation networks. Please ask your senators (if you have some) to give this issue more study and deliberation. 

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