This week, public transit officials from Michigan and across the country will be in Washington D.C. to lobby for more public transportation funding.
There is concern the Trump administration is not including public transit in some of its funding proposals.
“We hope that a new infrastructure package will be kind to transit,” says Edgar Bening, the general manager of the Flint Metropolitan Transit Authority. “We have many needs.”
Bening is also in D.C. to push for a change in Medicare rules to allow recipients to get reimbursed when they use public transit for medical appointments.
“If we can get this amendment… this change…it’s going to help our community and across the country,” says Bening.
The Trump administration’s $4.4 trillion budget proposal would cut several grant programs for transit projects.
