Group promoting Metro East light rail plans
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ST. LOUIS Despite unprecedented challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public transit remains an essential component of the St. Louis region’s transportation system.
In honor of Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day, which commemorated Parks’ birthday Feb. 4 and declared that equal access to public transit is a right for all, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) hosted a virtual “Talking Transit” event via Zoom. The event highlighted how work continues to positively influence public transit in the bi-state area.
Key learnings from presenters included details of the MetroLink expansion in Illinois, the Northside-Southside transit corridor study, current shift in focus to Community Mobility Hubs, funding strategies and more. To view the event, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMr2khhwk8&feature=youtu.be .
TriMet offers free rides Feb. 4 in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
TriMet will not collect fares on Feb. 4, 2021 in honor of Rosa Parks birthday. Oregonian file photo. Beth Nakamura/staff.LC-
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TriMet will hold its first Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day on Thursday, Feb. 4, when fares will not be collected for rides on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT.
Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN will join TriMet in not collecting fares on that day in honor of the late civil rights pioneer’s birthday.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat in the Black section of the bus after the driver asked her to move because the whites-only section was full. Parks’ refusal led to the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1956, a United States Supreme Court decision found that found bus segregation was unconstitutional.