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2023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTIO N 124
February 16, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives EMERSON, J. ANDERSON, BARE,
CONLEY, CONSIDINE, DRAKE, JACOBSON, JOERS, OHNSTAD, MOORE OMOKUNDE,
PALMERI, RATCLIFF, SHANKLAND, SINICKI, SNODGRASS, STUBBS, SUBECK and
CLANCY, cosponsored by Senators SMITH, L. JOHNSON, AGARD, LARSON, PFAFF,
ROYS and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Rules.
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Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2024, as Transit Equity Day.
Whereas, Rosa Parks was an iconic figure in the movements for social justice
and racial equality and played a major role in the inception of the Civil Rights
Movement that ended legal segregation in the United States; and
Whereas, the immediate focus of Rosa Parks' historic protest was the unequal
access of African-Americans to public transit; and
Whereas, unequal access to public transit based on race, income, and disability
has persisted to this day, and has to a degree become worse, with cuts in public
funding for transit and consequent fare increases in many transit systems; and
Whereas, paratransit is a necessary component for any public transit system
to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities who require it, and any expansion
of public transit necessitates further strengthening of paratransit so that it is
minimally held to the same reliability and timelines standards as other parts of the
system; and
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Whereas, the required expansion of public transit to address the climate crisis
provides an unprecedented opportunity to continue the tradition of Rosa Parks and
the Civil Rights Movement by ensuring that transit systems are affordable and
accessible and that people of color, economically disadvantaged people, people with
disabilities, and other marginalized populations have full access to the benefits of
public transit; and
Whereas, the expansion of public transit provides an unprecedented
opportunity to create a large number of good, environmentally sustainable,
high-skill, family-supporting transit operation jobs, as well as construction jobs for
building new transit facilities; and
Whereas, increased community access to public transit enforces a reduction in
racial, economic, and other disparities while building mobile equity within the
community now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That that the day of
February 4, 2024, shall be designated as Transit Equity Day in Wisconsin.
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