Public Transporation Advocacy

The Issue

We, riders of public transportation, urge the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to restore our Union Street bus, the B71. This bus provided safe and reliable transportation for students, easy access to major Brooklyn cultural institutions such as the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and cross-town transportation for the many residents of the Columbia Street Waterfront District, Carroll Gardens, and Park Slope. The B71 also provided cross-town transportation vital for workers, needed doctors’ appointments for families, and senior residents. Without the B71 there is no easy way to reach these areas. It now takes 3 buses or a train and 2 buses to reach these destinations.

Assemblywoman Millman will be testifying at the MTA Board meeting on Wednesday July 25th. She will be advocating for the restoration of the B71 so we need all the signatures we can get! Please sign and share with all your friends. Deadline for signatures is Tuesday July 24th.

 

 

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Assemblywoman Joan MillmanPetition StarterAssemblywoman Joan Millman was elected to the Assembly in 1997. She represents the 52nd District which includes the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Gowanus, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and parts of Park Slope, downtown Brooklyn and Prospect Heights. Millman has authored and sponsored legislation that has saved lives, protected consumers, and improved the quality of life for New Yorkers. Currently, she serves as Chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Aging. Previously she chaired the Assembly Committee on Election Law where she worked to increase access to voting and limit the influence of special interests in elections. Some of her accomplishments during the 2011 session were rejecting the plan to strip $36 million in funding from senior centers, fighting for the extension and expansion of rent regulation laws and sponsoring legislation to ban hydraulic fracturing.
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The Issue

We, riders of public transportation, urge the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to restore our Union Street bus, the B71. This bus provided safe and reliable transportation for students, easy access to major Brooklyn cultural institutions such as the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and cross-town transportation for the many residents of the Columbia Street Waterfront District, Carroll Gardens, and Park Slope. The B71 also provided cross-town transportation vital for workers, needed doctors’ appointments for families, and senior residents. Without the B71 there is no easy way to reach these areas. It now takes 3 buses or a train and 2 buses to reach these destinations.

Assemblywoman Millman will be testifying at the MTA Board meeting on Wednesday July 25th. She will be advocating for the restoration of the B71 so we need all the signatures we can get! Please sign and share with all your friends. Deadline for signatures is Tuesday July 24th.

 

 

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Assemblywoman Joan MillmanPetition StarterAssemblywoman Joan Millman was elected to the Assembly in 1997. She represents the 52nd District which includes the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Gowanus, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and parts of Park Slope, downtown Brooklyn and Prospect Heights. Millman has authored and sponsored legislation that has saved lives, protected consumers, and improved the quality of life for New Yorkers. Currently, she serves as Chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Aging. Previously she chaired the Assembly Committee on Election Law where she worked to increase access to voting and limit the influence of special interests in elections. Some of her accomplishments during the 2011 session were rejecting the plan to strip $36 million in funding from senior centers, fighting for the extension and expansion of rent regulation laws and sponsoring legislation to ban hydraulic fracturing.
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Metropolitan Transit Authority
Metropolitan Transit Authority
Joseph J. Lhota - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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Petition created on July 18, 2012