Cleveland RTA Citizens Advisory Board

For Valentine's Day, Transit app is launching a special Rate-My-Ride prompt that encourages riders to “share the love” with transit operators and staff. During their trip, riders can thank their driver with a Valentine’s themed button.

Goodbye Barbara, we will miss you. Thank you for always making us laugh. We appreciate your many years of being an active member of our ADA sub-committee. Our thought and prayers are with your family and friends.

https://www.efboyd.com/obituary/Barbara-Campbell

How To Make Policies Work for Black Women With Disabilities To create more equitable systems, policymakers must take an intersectional approach that includes Black women and girls with disabilities.

We are proudly partnerning with Care Alliance Health Center to provide free Covid-19 vaccinations and booster shots to the general public during the Weekend. The RTA Community Immunity Bus will be parked on Cleveland Public Square tomorrow morning from 9 am - 12pm on West Roadway.

Medical staff from Care Alliance Health Center will be on the bus providing the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at no charge to adults only. Appointments for children can be made with representatives on the bus to visit one of their health center locations.

http://www.riderta.com/news/community-immunity-bus-public-square

RTA Service is back!

Public Transit Systems Refocus on Their Core Riders In the wake of the pandemic, officials are shifting bus and rail service toward lower-income neighborhoods, while some agencies are eliminating fares.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/11/09/how-the-new-infrastructure-deal-will-make-transit-better/

How the New Infrastructure Deal Will Make Transit Better …especially if the Build Back Better Act passes through reconciliation later this month.

https://www.theverge.com/22749305/public-transportation-covid-climate-buses-future

Public transportation can save the world — if we let it Can we survive without public transportation?

"Mobility justice": How cities are rethinking public transportation after COVID The pandemic exposed inequities in public transportation, cities reevaluate where they spent their transit dollars

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/10/gcrta-pilot-program-seeks-to-use-transit-ambassadors-instead-of-armed-police-to-deter-fare-evasion.html

GCRTA pilot program seeks to use transit ambassadors instead of armed police to deter fare evasion Using civilians instead of police would mark a major turn in the transit authority’s approach to fare enforcement after a 2017 court ruling that found RTA's practices unconstitutional.