Reported by The Independance
Last week, U.S. Senators John Fetterman (D-PA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), joined by Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), reintroduced their Moving Transit Forward Act to boost federal funding for state and local transit to improve service, safety, and reliability for riders. The bill creates a new federal funding program under the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide state and local transit agencies with additional resources to cover the costs of adding new routes, increasing service frequency, preventing cuts to current services, and improving safety for customers and workers, among other investments to improve rider experiences.
“Like I’ve said before, public transit is the backbone of our communities. Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians in both red and blue counties rely on these services every day to get where they need to go,” said Senator Fetterman.
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