RTA Board of Directors meeting, November 2022
Advocates called for SMART to raise wages and improve labor relations with bus drivers, pointing to retention issues. The board was undecided on whether to start planning future transit millage proposals, immediately after the recent success of transit millages.
“I’ve been working for over three years to try and improve transit in my immediate area, and I don’t want to wait for another decade or more.”
Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) will accept grant applications for regional transit programs this spring, funded by $25 million in federal pandemic relief dollars. The Michigan Ride paratransit pilot closes after three years without becoming a full-fledged program; technological and business limitations were cited.
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Documentation
The meeting was live-blogged on Mastodon and Twitter for Detroit Documenters.
Documents available on Documenters.org, including the meeting agenda and more documentation by Bridget Scallen.
The agency’s last meeting on Nov. 8 was cancelled. No documentation could be found for its last meeting on Oct. 24. The last documented meeting on Sept. 15 was documented by Dan Ignacio and Tiffany Pilson.
The next meeting on Dec. 5 was documented by Colleen Cirocco and Madison Ganzak.
Visit the agency’s website for official information.
Related news articles
- “Detroit City Council has 1 week to vote on paratransit contract”
Nov. 15, 2022, Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press - “Oakland County all in on transit as millage passes; Macomb, Wayne voters also show support”
Nov. 9, 2022, Eric D. Lawrence and Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press
Materials
Archived pages
Mastodon posts and meeting page are archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Audio
The actual start of the meeting (1:01 p.m.) can be heard 31 minutes into the recording.
Images
Screenshots of online meeting. Due to limited resources, image descriptions are provided on request — contact me.
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