"We're not going to negotiate with ourselves," said Molly McKinley of the National Campaign for Transit Justice. "We're not going to lower our own bar ... just because of the outcome of this election. We'll negotiate to make progress along the way, but we're not going to be changing our North Star."
Saul Levin of the Green New Deal Network stressed, is an "accessible, affordable, clean, reliable" transportation system that gives residents real choices about how they get around, rather than the car-dependent status quo that's forced on virtually everyone whether they like it or not.
"We're obviously not in an ideal position in the context of a Republican trifecta, or [even] in the context of a split Congress," Levin added. "We would have a very difficult time passing major policy [today]. But you don't pass policy by developing it the day before [it's introduced.]"
Advocates from climate, labor, and transit justice movements across America gathered to strategize about how to win their shared transportation goals in the next four years - even as transit-hostile lawmakers seem poised to seize control of all three branches of government.
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