Urban Core Transit Campaign in Washtenaw County Carolyn Grawi Advocacy Education Director Ann Arbor...
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Urban Core Transit Campaign in Washtenaw County Carolyn Grawi Advocacy Education Director Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living Partners for Transit Coordinator 734-971-0277 [email protected] Martha B. Valadez Transit Campaign Organizer Ecology Center [email protected] (734) 761-3186 ext. 9264
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Urban Core Transit Campaignin Washtenaw County
Carolyn GrawiAdvocacy Education DirectorAnn Arbor Center for Independent LivingPartners for Transit [email protected]
Martha B. ValadezTransit Campaign OrganizerEcology [email protected](734) 761-3186 ext. 9264
Presentation Outline
• What is Partners for Transit?• What do we do?• Goals and objectives• How you can get involved?
What is Partners for Transit (P4T)?
Who are we?Washtenaw Partners for Transit (P4T) is a coalition of community leaders, religious leaders, environmental activists, local professionals, business leaders, students, and motivated residents dedicated to the improvement of public transportation in the Washtenaw Urban Core.
What is the Transit Campaign for the Urban Core? A campaign to improve and expand a transit authority in the Ann Arbor Area so that the more than 220,000 people living in the urban core---Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township, Saline, Pittsfield Township, are better connected!
Who are we?
Coordinate
Activate
Our goals and vision
• Engage, motivate, activate • Online and on the ground momentum• Increasing our transit message across the
county• Get community input and push community
transit priorities • Press the press• Transit = Fun!
• Public engagement• Volunteer recruitment and
training• Build community• Online activism• Engage and recruit partners• Community input and voice
What have we done?
http://instagram.com/partnersfortransit
400+ (NOVEMBER)
300+
200+
FACEBOOK FRIENDS
600+ (NOVEMBER)
300+
150+
PETITION SIGNATURES
{312
} {200
0+}
Who are you?
YOUR STORY:• Your name• Where you live• Why does urban core
transit matter to you?• Why does urban core
transit matter to your organization and its members?
• What is your story?
You have a say!
• Share your story in our video campaign• Bus stop / Bus ride• Meetings in your community • Calls & canvassing• Table with us in the community• Partner with us online!• Attend community meetings• Endorse P4T
Partners for Transit 2014• First P4T convening• P4T rally• Continue to recruit and engage
potential partners• Educate and Inform community on
millage• Educate and inform on transit projects• Public forums and community
meetings• Attend public meetings as a coalition• Coordinate and activate
Commitment Card
Thank you! Visit our website
& follow us!
http://instagram.com/partnersfortransitwww.partnersfortransit.orghttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Washtenaw-Partners-for-Transit/34972289770
