Check our zine and podcast project: The Lift Every Voice Project. The project amplifies the greater Portland community’s transportation needs and barriers. These stories come from Black, Latine, older adults, youth, low-income & transit-dependent people. Lift Every Voice wants to highlight how neighbors navigate public transportation to meet their basic needs and improve their quality […]
We’re excited to announce we’ve been named as an inaugural grantee of the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF)! With this investment we’ll be continuing our research and advocacy that advances climate justice and centers voices from Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color in transportation. Many thanks to the organizers and leaders who […]
Metro, our regional government body, is kicking off a public input process to update their Regional Flexible Fund Allocation (RFFA) policy – which covers federal transportation funding Metro receives and will spend in 2025-2027. This funding – typically about $150 million over three years, is just 5% of all the transportation funding spent in the […]
On Monday, January 13, Metro Councilors will hear from the public (you!) about which projects to include in the T2020 Transportation Measure, which will likely be referred to the ballot for a vote in November 2020. A T2020 Task Force recommended a slate of projects that includes many projects to improve safety, accessibility, and affordability […]
This Autumn, Task Force members considered project investment recommendations on Tier 1 Corridors. In October, Task Force members received Metro’s Preliminary Staff Recommendation for projects to recommend for inclusion in the T2020 measure. The Coalition spent countless hours with our Research Committee analyzing the projects based on our values of racial equity, safety, climate, and […]
YouthPass is a program that currently gives Portland Public School (PPS) students free access to Trimet transit service in lieu of a traditional school bus system. The program was originally offered only to low-income students, but was expanded in 2011 thanks to organizing from young people of color at Sisters in Action for Power to […]
The Getting There Together Coalition is committed to making transportation equity a reality in our community through program and project prioritization and financing in T2020. Our guiding principles have been co-created by our coalition members, and are the lens through which we consider all decisions in the T2020 process. Historically, too many transportation investments have […]
Over the summer, the Getting There Together Coalition followed the Local Investment Team (LIT) corridor and project process closely, click here to download the Coalition’s LIT Executive Summary. Download the project & cost summary for Clackamas County Download the project & cost summary for Multnomah County Download the project & cost summary for Washington County […]
Our Approach to Regional Programs Updated 8/23: Getting There Together Coalition members and allies strongly supported affordability as their top priority, and were in favor of Fare Affordability, Anti-displacement (Community Strengthening), and Multi-Family Housing; safety, selecting Active Transportation Regional Connections, and Safety Hotspots; and programs that fall into transit service needs, including Better Bus and […]
We are excited to welcome our new coalition coordinator, Walter Robinson II! Walter has already hit the ground running in the beginning to expand the coalition, and preparing for strategic and intentional advocacy for communities currently least served by our transportation system. You will be hearing much more from them soon! Walter comes to this […]