TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC
231 W 29TH STREET SUITE 904, NEW YORK, NY 10001 www.tstc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: THE TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN CONDUCTS ADVOCACY AND POLICY PROGRAMS TO REDUCE CAR DEPENDENCY AND PROMOTE A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND CONNECTICUT METROPOLITAN REGIONS.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, Tri-State Transportation Campaign accomplished the following:Fixing Our Commutes & Making Transit FairTri-State works to improve the commute and overall travel experiences for any users of public transit. This includes pursuing policies to reduce delays and traffic while improving public transportation for all. Our campaigns in FY2020 focused on improving bus service, pushing for transparency in the MTAs capital planning process, and, when COVID-19 shut down our region, ensuring transit agencies had the resources to keep us moving:Bus System redesigns in New York and New Jersey, including introducing community organizing to our New Ride for New Jersey Campaign. This program created a cohort of riders interested in advocating for better bus service in Newark and Elizabeth, while informing our grasstops campaign work. This campaign was successful in developing and proposing a bus riders bill of rights, currently under discussion in the NJ legislature. Our New York bus redesign campaign, Bus Turnaround, released three reports on how buses can help with COVID economic recovery and the importance of bus lanes on our roadways. These reports, as well as ongoing advocacy to NYC Councilmembers, successfully made the case to make the 14th street busway permanent and push for new busways in Flushing and Washington Heights.Along with partner transportation advocates in New York, we called on the MTA to improve their transparency around their capital program. We succeeded in increasing legislative oversight by briefing legislators on the capital program and our concerns through a substantive budget hearing, additional legislative oversight hearings, and increased scrutiny from elected officials.Federal work in FY20 began with a focus revitalizing the cross-harbor freight and the gateway tunnel projects, but quickly turned to be focused on federal emergency relief to transportation agencies in the region. Tri-States push, alongside local and national organizations, led to $4 billion for the MTA and $1.3 billion for NJTransit in the CARES Acts $23 billion package in 2020.Meeting Our Climate GoalsIn FY2020 we took our push for transit electrification statewide, calling on NY to commit to statewide electrification. This resulted in a commitment for the state to electrify the five largest transit authorities outside of the MTA. We are also a founding member of ElectrifyNJ, a complementary effort to keep the pressure on NJTransit to electrify on their proposed timeline, as well as highlight the needs for electrifying ports and other sources of transportation pollution across the state.We pushed past transit electrification to pursue regional efforts to raise revenue for the transition to a clean transportation economy through the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program. Tri-State created a working group in New Jersey and helped create coalitions in New York and Connecticut to bring advocates together on these issues, resulting in public events, op-eds, and meetings with state decisionmakers. Multiple Tri-State staff members spoke on panels and drafted comments pushing for important equity and public transit provisions in all three states.Ending Pedestrian DeathsCircuit Trails In FY20, Tri-State's work on the Circuit Trails resulted in more public participation in the planning, design, and use of the Circuit Trail network throughout the region. Tri-State provided municipalities and counties with assistance in applying to active transportation-focused grants such as DVRPC's Regional Trail Program, NJDOT's Bikeways, and federal Transportation Alternatives funding; also helped the following local bike/ped planning projects get awarded: Camden City Bike/Ped Master Plan, Elk Township's Elephant Swamp Trail Conceptual Design, and Pennsauken-Maple Shade's Burlington- Camden Trial Conceptual Design. Tri-State hosted and facilitated multiple bike rides in Camden and Trenton to encourage local knowledge and exploration of the Circuit. Tri-State also planned the City of Trenton's first-ever Ciclovia to show the potential of reimagined streets and raise awareness of the Circuit. Four new Circuit Trail ambassadors were recruited and multiple partnerships were strengthened through collaborative efforts. During the COVID-19 shutdown, Tri-State heightened the importance of trails as a means of transportation. Tri-State also lead the charge in developing policy recommendations for the Circuit Trail Coalition's policy recommendations for New Jersey and helped develop the Coalition's strategic plan while also continuing to lead the New Jersey coalition in coordinating funding, policy, and engagement efforts.Vision Zero In FY20, Tri-State created and lead the Vision Zero Working Group which laid the groundwork for the formation of the Vision Zero New Jersey Alliance, a coalition of diverse partners, such as families impacted by traffic crashes, community members, advocates, policymakers, transportation professionals, public health professionals, and others.

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