by Taisha O'Bryant, TRU Chair, written for The Labor/Community Strategy Center

The T Riders Union (TRU), a program of ACE, organizes public transit
riders to build a unified voice and movement for better public transportation in Greater Boston. We have joined together to demand our fair share of service because the MBTA and the state have failed to meet the needs of riders in low income neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color.

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Boston Transit Riders Union members and organizers were in the streets and on the phones urging riders to vote NO on Question 3. This ballot initiative would reduce the state sales and use tax from 6.25% to 3%. If enacted, some of the impacts would have been more reduced service hours, increased fares and massive layoffs of bus drivers, a local amplification of the current national crisis in transit systems. Organizers spoke with riders at Dudley Station and South Station in the last few weeks to bring attention to the potential harms of a sales tax reduction.

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