Every day, people throughout the Bay Area take a million trips on transit. Paratransit, bus, BART, Caltrain, and ferry service – while far from perfect – play an essential role in helping people get where they need to go. However, Bay Area communities face devastating cuts to the transit service they depend on unless new funding comes through. Tune in to this webinar to learn what these cuts to Paratransit, BART, AC Transit, Muni, Caltrain, VTA, SamTrans, and other agencies would mean for people with disabilities in the Bay Area and how we can save and improve the service we rely on.

Hosts:

Warren Cushman - Community Organizer/System Change Advocate, Community Resources for Independent Living  

Warren started at CRIL in 2023 and has been a disability rights advocate for over 30 years. He is totally blind and has a mental health challenge. He is the community organizer here at CRIL and has knowledge on several advocacy topics including legislation, housing advocacy, and transportation issues. The independent living philosophy is very significant in his life. Some of his outside interests include music, sports, and reading.

Carter Lavin – Co-Founder, Transbay Coalition

Carter co-founded Transbay Coalition in 2020 at the group works to create a broad grassroots movement for equitable, sustainable public & active transportation. Its members collaborate across decentralized, locally-led campaigns united in their shared goals and values. Transbay Coalition helps advocates build & flex political power to win the pro-transit & active transportation changes they want to see in the Bay Area. He lives in Oakland, California and is the author of If You Want To Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy