Mychalejko: PA must make a long-term commitment to fund public transit
Funding public transit is not only an economic and racial justice issue — it's an environmental one in Pennsylvania as well.
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Funding public transit is not only an economic and racial justice issue — it's an environmental one in Pennsylvania as well.
There appears to be a fast-growing consensus that the federal transportation program should include ongoing operating assistance for mass transit, which the Federal Transit Administration has been providing under an emergency rule approved at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some advocates see such assistance as an acknowledgment that public transit is as essential as roads are to get people where they’re going. Still others see it as the way to give American cities the kind of transit service essential workers deserve and everyone else would actually use. How much assistance would the F...