$4,000 a year for gas, and you could have free #transit for 60 basis points of tax

Gas Prices and the Value of Walkable Communities | Planetizen: ""While the average American household paid $4,155 for gasoline in 2011 -- a 25% increase over 2010 -- (in our walkable community) we paid about $1,400. And it wasn’t because we made sacrifices. It was because we happened upon an immensely satisfying lifestyle that just happened to be less dependent on gasoline. At whatever price.""

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#Transit Intangibles - Life in the human lane

Transit Intangibles: "Transit evangelists can name off a long list of tangible benefits from riding transit. A smaller carbon footprint, better health, lower stress levels from driving can all be named but effects from riding that are rarely talked about are the intangible benefits of transit. This brings me back to an experience I had yesterday while waiting on my bus to return to work."

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#occupy has shaken loose more #transit funding

RTA wins $12.5 million grant for new rapid station at Mayfield and East 119th | cleveland.com: "CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has landed a $12.5 million grant to build a new rapid station at Mayfield Road and East 119th Street, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown's office reported today."

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Koch Bros - ALEC - Get Slapped Back

Ohio Turns Back a Law Limiting Unions’ Rights - NYTimes.com: "COLUMBUS, Ohio — A year after Republicans swept legislatures across the country, voters in Ohio delivered their verdict Tuesday on a centerpiece of the conservative legislative agenda, striking down a law that restricted public workers’ rights to bargain collectively."

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Kasich - Lehman Bros crook, Koch puppet - give back the stolen funds!

Quinnipiac: Opposition To Ohio's SB 5 Grows; Women, Union Members Push Kasich Deeper In Hole - ProgressOhio: "If the election were held Tuesday instead of in two weeks, a solid majority of Ohioans would vote to reject the state's new law restricting collective bargaining by government workers.

The latest poll from Connecticut's Quinnipiac University released Tuesday showed a 25-point gap between opposition and support for Senate Bill 5, which appears on the Nov. 8 ballot as Issue 2. That's nearly double the 13-point gap seen about a month ago when the poll showed momentum shifting to the side of those trying to save the law."

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#occupywallstreet in 72 cities

Cleveland (photos.cleveland.com)

Dayton (daytoninformer.com)

Cincinnati (cryptome.org)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/cities-that-have-joined-the-occupied-movement

RTA should provide free transportation for all

RTA should provide free transportation for all: "Fares provide only 16 percent of RTA’s operating budget. The rest comes from taxes of one kind or another. Why can’t taxes provide the other 16 percent?
Eliminating fares would offer the following advantages:
• Bus travel time would be reduced, as the driver would not have to wait while passengers paid fares. This would also save fuel.
• Coins would not have to be counted.
• Those most in need of financial help would benefit.
• Many may choose the bus rather than their cars, saving fuel, traffic and parking spaces.
Fare-free public transportation would send a message that Dayton cares about its citizens.
Harvey R. Tuck
Harrison Twp."

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