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Transit Advocates: Call your legislators today to save transit; Thanks for the meet & greet!

Submitted by Steven on 25 February, 2010 - 7:23am
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Make a phone call to save transit.

Call local legislators today and Friday to save transit service.

It’s especially important to call your State Senators today or tomorrow to ask them to vote for transit funding in the budget. Since almost no one knows about this new effort, your calls will have a huge effect! The Senate is scheduled to vote on this on Monday. Download a list of your representatives to contact.

Ask them to support the alternate tax swap transportation funding proposal that doesn’t eliminate public transit funding. Ask them to support a budget package that includes all of the following elements:

 

●   The infusion of $400 million in one-time funding for the State Transit Assistance (STA) program.

 

●  An annual allocation of a minimum of $350 million with a 75%/25% split in favor of STA.

 

●  Protect the above from being reduced through line-item veto.

 

●  Extremely important to include contingency language to restore the current funding structure if all or part of the tax swap is declared invalid or otherwise unenforceable. Since there is a real risk of legal challenge to the tax swap, we urge the Legislature to include contingency language now to insure against such a scenario.

Be sure to mention that OCTA is cutting service 30% even on the busiest, most crowded routes, and that people won’t be able to get to work, school, or medical appts.

If you have the time, you can also call your State Assemblymembers, because they will have to vote on this issue again when it comes out of the Senate.

Download a list of your representatives to contact.

If you’re not sure who your legislators are, enter your zip code at:

 

Lastly, you could also call:
Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg           (916) 651-1529
Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass                            (323) 937-4747          
Speaker-elect of the Assembly John A. Pèrez               (213) 620-4646

 

Please drop us a quick e-mail to let us know who you called. Thanks!

Thanks for coming to our Meet & Greet.  

It was great to meet all of you in a more informal situation than an OCTA Board meeting. For those of you who couldn’t attend, you can still write us with questions. Also, let us know if you would like to attend a future meeting.
 

New: March 14 2010 Bus Books and Bus Service Change brochures are now both online!

Many routes are being severely reduced or eliminated.
It’s best to have both documents since the new concepts are explained in detail in the brochure, but the actual timetables are only in the Bus Book, etc.

The new Bus Service Change brochures are available online at www.octa.net/marchchange and are already on the buses. Bus Books are now available online and will be on the buses March 5. Please preserve your copies or use the online versions as OCTA is printing only limited amounts.

Important: Additional routes with smaller schedule changes, not mentioned in Bus Service Change brochure, but in Bus Book: 33, 55, 60, 79, 86, 167, 211, 411.

 
Transit Advocates of Orange County - www.transitadvocatesoc.org - (714)607-0012

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I doubt it will help, but my

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Submitted by Justin N on 26 February, 2010 - 4:28pm. 26 February, 2010 - 4:28pm.

I doubt it will help, but my senator, Bob Dutton, now knows I support ABX8-6 and I want him to as well. His staff seemed to not know anything about the bill, so maybe it'll make a difference.

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