Tell Your Senators to Vote Yes on HB 1418 before Wednesday, 4/16 at 5pm!

Action Alert: Tell Your Senators to Vote Yes on HB 1418 before Wednesday, 4/16 at 5pm!

We’re so close to passing legislation to allow people who rely on transit to have a voice on transit boards throughout our state. But we’re running out of time. We need the HB 1418 to get a senate floor vote before 5pm tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16, and we need your help.

Please send a message to your senators to support and vote yes on HB 1418.

Transit Rider Representation on Public Transit Boards

Nobody wants transit to succeed more than the people who rely on it day in and day out, but our voices are continually left out of decision-making processes. In Washington, a Public Transit Benefit Areas (PTBA) is a governing body established by state code to create and run transit agencies. 31 out of Washington State’s 38 Transit agencies are governed under the PTBA structure. By Washington state law, these transit agency boards are composed of local elected officials, many of whom rarely ride transit. Our proposed legislation would amend Washington state law to allow PTBAs to appoint two voting members to their governing boards, one who is transit-reliant and one from an organization that serves transit-reliant communities.

Read more about why we support this legislation in this op-ed in Publicola.

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