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Thank you to everyone who came out on June 5. We had an excellent and useful discussion about how to move the region forward and expand transit access/job access.

For those unable to make it, videos of the discussion will be posted. The maps on display are already available on this page.


 

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Regional transit has been in the news recently. Recent reports have shown that workers can not get to where the jobs are. This is a problem that we would like to help solve. Join us as we host a community forum on regional transit and its impacts on Milwaukee and the surrounding region.

Some of the issues that our lack regional transit has an impact on:

  • Access to jobs – some of the region’s largest job centers lave little or no connections by transit.
  • Environmental justice – a lack of regional transit means more reliance on the automobile for travel in the Milwaukee area, creating more pollution – particularly in areas near expressways.
  • Incarceration and barriers to re-entering society – Wisconsin has the highest incarceration rate for black men in the nation and Milwaukee’s lack of regional transit to job centers has been identified by local, national and international observers as a key cause of this.

Join us on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 5:00pm
Hillside Terrace Resource Center
1452 N. 7th St. (7th/Cherry)
as we discuss how to solve our regional transit problem.

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