Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance

🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:

The Mid-America Regional Council will host a series of public meetings before finalizing the updated Smart Moves Plan! This is your chance to learn more, ask questions, and shape a critical document to guide transit development in the region for years to come. kcrta.org/2026/10/23/h...

When: 9/19, doors at 6:30 PM Where: 2200 Lexington Ave RSVP: bit.ly/kc-bus-fundraiser 🚌 Hope to see you there! 🚌

Thanks to the advocacy efforts of everyday folks like YOU, #Missouri Transit funding was preserved at $4.2M. Now is the time to speak up again! KCRTA is joining folks across the state to urge Gov. Kehoe to allocate $9M for SFY 2027. Learn more and help us speak up: kcrta.org/2026/09/16/t...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed a bill allocating $2.5 million for transit. While this is up from his original proposal to zero out state transit funding, it still represents a 64% reduction in transit funding since he came into office. cmt-stl.org/governor-sig...

The Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to RESTORE $5M for state transit funding! This is good news, but it's not a done deal. Reach out to your state senator today to ask them to support this measure! #Missouri #Transit #Funding cmt-stl.org/mo-senate-ap...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe is proposing further cuts to state transit funding. That would be especially bad for rural transit providers. KCRTA and transit advocates across the state opposed those cuts then and we oppose these cuts now. www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

Our immediate past chair @davekcmo.bsky.social was recently a guest on the podcast for The Whole Person, a local organization serving people with disabilities. He discussed #transit, #accessibility, regional funding and more! youtu.be/zhCncLm5Ttg?...

We support #KCMO Ordinance 260219, an effort to remove parking minimums in some of the denser parts of the city. Check out our letter of support and submit testimony to the city clerk before the Neighborhood Planning and Development committee meeting on Tuesday, 2/24!

The Missouri House is considering HB4, which covers the budget of the Missouri Department of Transportation, today at noon! Learn more and send a message to the committee to ask lawmakers to restore funding that was cut from public transit: mopublictransit.org/2026/01/30/h...

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An enormous thank you to those who joined us last week for our annual meeting. We gave an update on the push for regional transit funding and recognized some key champions. Congratulations to our award winners Councilman Eric Bunch and Anthony Cunningham! Thank you to the Whole Person for hosting!

Join us for our annual meeting on January 15 at 5:30pm! Learn more about our work to advance regional transit funding and help us recognize key champions for transit causes! Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcrta-annu...

Great job by @kcur.org to map out all of the benches at bus stop amenities in the region!

The Missouri Department of Transportation is conducting a survey on intercity bus service. Take the survey today and share with your friends! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Exciting to see the Johnson County Commission adopt a new strategic plan for transit! www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

The bus service linking Overland Park, Lenexa and Kansas City International Airport is expected to run from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

Great quotation from our chair @tah.bsky.social and other transit leaders in this article from The Beacon about transit challenges ahead of the World Cup in Kansas City next year. Bottom line: we don't fund transit enough. The region needs a better funding model: thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

An exciting new chapter has begun in #KCMO. Today, @kcstreetcar.org officially opened the Main Street extension! This project has been years in the making, and took the effort of countless folks, including our immediate past chair David Johnson. We can't wait to see what's next!

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Regional Mobility Summit! Let's get to work making regional #transit funding a reality! www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

Our immediate past chair @davekcmo.bsky.social served on a panel about transportation for KC Tomorrow this morning!

Our chair @tah.bsky.social is presenting at the KCATA Regional Mobility Summit this morning! The topic -- results from our poll on transit funding. Learn more: kcrta.org/2025/10/02/k...

Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance Vice Chair Michael Kelley says the poll shows that people across the metro will support public transit if their local governments invest in it, especially at a time when the state and federal governments are pulling back transit funding.