Tell the Louisville Metro Council to Fund TARC and Prevent Service cuts. Cuts to TARC would hurt working families across the Greater Louisville area.

A public transportation crisis looms for working families in and around Louisville if you are one of the average 4.8 million riders annually who use the Transit Authority of River City (TARC). The TARC board and management have decided the way out of a budget shortfall is to sacrifice quality, family sustaining TARC bus driver jobs and cut services to Louisville’s working families, proposing a budget which could slash as many as 25% of driver positions, leaving the Greater Louisville area without a smaller public transit system.

Workers, students and seniors in our community who rely on TARC every day to get to their jobs, classes, doctors appointments, the supermarket and more are being asked to stomach cuts to a critical mode of transportation. Bus drivers at TARC play a critical role in supporting the working people of the Greater Louisville area on a daily basis; these trained, union operators get our family members and neighbors to and from their destinations safely and reliably each week. According to census bureau data, about 10.4% of Louisville households do not have access to a car. This makes public transportation for thousands of working families a necessity to fuel Louisville’s local economy and to ensure families are able to put food on the table.