Take Action: Tell Lawmakers to Reject a Transportation Bill That Takes Us Backward

Just two years ago, Minnesota made national headlines, passing a ground-breaking transportation bill that included transformative investments in public transit and urgently needed policies to protect our climate from transportation pollution. Now, some lawmakers are trying to destroy this hard-won progress with a bad transportation bill that takes us backward. The House transportation omnibus bill, HF 2438, includes drastic cuts to transit funding and prioritizes highway expansion over the health of our climate and communities.

Take action today to tell your State Representative to vote NO on the House transportation bill! 

Minnesotans want more than one way of getting around and have already waited far too long for quality public transit. The metro-area transit sales tax funding we secured in 2023 is already improving and expanding Twin Cities transit service—and workers and families are counting on faster and more frequent buses and trains to return to office and meet their daily needs. 

We know household budgets are tight right now and public transit is the most affordable transportation option for many families, students, workers, and seniors. Attacks on transit investments—from Metro Mobility to Greater Minnesota transit to Twin Cities’ light rail—are attacks on our communities and our collective prosperity statewide. 

Tell your State Representative to vote NO on the House transportation bill! 

For generations, massive highways and car-centric urban planning have fueled the climate crisis while creating deep racial inequities. Thanks to a decade of advocacy from a statewide coalition, Minnesota passed a nation-leading policy in 2023 and expanded it in 2024 to shift the type of roads we build and the way our communities develop to secure a safer climate future. 

Our Driving Down Emissions law ensures that major road projects move us closer to our greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled reduction goals—or offset their negative impact with mitigation projects that give our communities more and better options to bike, walk, roll, and use public transit. But now some lawmakers want to delay implementation for years—putting us even further behind in achieving our state’s climate goals. 

Tell your State Representative that our Driving Down Emissions law needs to be implemented now to safeguard our climate future! 

Your support and action over the past several years has made these historic funding and policy victories possible. Together, we can make sure legislators protect these critical gains to improve and expand public transit, cut climate pollution, and improve daily life in Minnesota. 

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