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We need your signatures! As part of APTA Chair M.P. Carter’s signature initiative, “Telling Our Story,” the public transportation industry is out in full force this summer collecting signatures for the National Public Transit Petition.

It’s simple. Just encourage your riders, employees, and advocates to sign the petition. The petition and your testimonials will be featured in a Sept. 22 event in Washington, DC, urging Congress to pass surface transportation authorization now.

In addition, all collected video testimonials will be showcased in an interactive online video wall.

Here’s just a sampling of what some systems are doing to promote signing the petition in their communities:

* Chicago’s Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is undertaking a number of activities to promote the Telling Our Story: Public Transportation’s Petition to Congress. RTA is featuring a link to the petition on its home page, using Twitter to communicate the importance of signing the petition, and posting items on its Facebook page.
* The Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany, NY, sent the link to the petition to all New York Public Transit Association members and is also contacting members of one of its local chambers of commerce.
* Volunteers from the North Texas Clean Air Coalition gathered signatures during a special Trinity Railway Express customer appreciation event sponsored by Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority.

As contributions continue to come in, be sure to look back at APTA’s Telling Our Story web page.

The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority in Pompano Beach, FL, gathers signatures for the national public transportation petition at one of its customer outreach events.

 

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