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115 SPOTLIGHT: ADVOCACY BETTER BUS COALITION The Better Bus Coalition has been organized for a little over 2 years and in this (relatively) short amount of time has become a prominent transit advocacy group in Cincinnati that has gotten the attention of local political officials and transportation leaders.
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116 tactical do-it-yourself projects -- benches to install with volunteers. The coalition can procure the materials for the benches and construct them within a week.
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117 MARTA ARMY The MARTA Army transit Quick-Build projects are the least materials- and labor-intensive of the projects included in this study, but the impact the group has had within the transit space is great. This project is a strong example of how ongoing and regular collaboration between an advocacy group and transit agency can result in tangible, expedited improvements to a transit network, and it is evidence that with dedicated resources and intentional communication, a partnership between a transit agency and advocacy organization can be mutually beneficial.
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118 The MARTA Army was formed in 2014 following the 2013 TransportationCamp South, an "un-conference" hosted by Georgia Tech University and attended by 200 transportation enthusiasts. According to the founder, a current MARTA Army board member (interviewee)
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119 $3.8 million from the state for multisystem transit wayfinding at bus stops. The signs are not solely for MARTA, but the funding was still a major win for Greater Atlanta's transit network and was the first time MARTA ever received state funding for transit.
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120 TURBO What started as a neighborhood group with an interest in Tactical Urbanism has evolved into an arm of a prominent Nashville urban design nonprofit. Through incremental projects of various scales and research and data collection, Tactical URBanism Organizers (TURBO)
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121 as an action arm. TURBO helps implement concepts based on research from NCDC's projects and publications and pushes local government entities toward getting more comfortable with test projects and innovative transportation solutions.
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122 The TURBO Triangle Triage project, the activation of an unused triangular median refuge adjacent to a new BRT stop at East Nashville Magnet High School, began in June 2015 with signage TURBO installed asking people what they wanted to see in the space. The signs encouraged people to submit input on TURBO's "get involved" web page, which the organization uses to solicit project ideas and donations from the public to issue requests for volunteers.
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