BDSM - Buses Do So Much (for the environment) T-Shirt

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Show your pride for the dominance of public transportation.

100% cotton classic black tee.

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Sesame Street: Song: The Subway!

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WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan Canada-Seattle-Portland bullet train

In hopes to deliver 250 mph rail service by midcentury, the Democrats in Washington’s congressional delegation are asking the federal government for $198 million to help plan a route between Vancouver, B.C.; Seattle; and Portland.

Michigan legislators and the Governor are in the final week of deciding how to invest more than $6 billion in transportation and they need to hear from you!

After decades of disinvestment in transit, this is finally our chance for the state to boost funding for bus agencies from Detroit to the UP, so they can:

The Governor, House, and Senate each have different transportation budgets, which they now need to agree on. Michigan very much needs the $276 million the Michigan House passed for local bus operating, but the Senate only passed $216 million. Act now to tell top leaders to keep that increased bus funding in the final budget!

Tell Michigan's top legislative leaders you want a big boost funding for transit, especially local bus operations!

What if it wasn’t these are policy choices.

an Electric Ferry

A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.   Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.   Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.      

Public transit in the U.S. is in a sorry state – aging, underfunded and losing riders, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Many proposed solutions focus on new technologies, like self-driving cars and flying taxis. But as a researcher in urban policy and planning, I see more near-term promise in a mode that’s been around for a century: the city bus.

Today, buses in many parts of the U.S. are old and don’t run often enough or serve all the places where people need to go. But this doesn’t reflect the bus’s true capability. Instead, as I see it, it’s the result of cities, states and federal leaders failing to subsidize a quality public service.  

As I show in my new book, “The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight,” few U.S. politicians have focused on bus riders’ experiences over the past half-century. And many executives have lavished precious federal capital dollars on building new light, rapid and commuter rail lines, in hope of attracting suburban riders back to city centers and mass transit.