TOMORROW is your last chance to make your voice heard at KMCO budget hearings! Join your fellow bus riders and allies as we show city council how important our buses are.
📍Winnetonka High School
🗓 Tomorrow, 3/7
🕘 9 AM
🔗 RSVP at bit.ly/kcbrubudget26
🗣 Calling all KC bus riders and allies!
🚌 Join the KCBRU at the second budget hearing and make our voices heard together!
🗓 TODAY, 3/2
🕕 6 PM
📍Guadalupe Community Center, 1015 Avenida Cesar E Chavez
RSVP: bit.ly/kcbrubudget26
Today is the first KCMO budget hearing! We will be showing up to tell our stories and demand fully-funded buses. Join us!
📍Ruskin High School
🕕 6 PM *today*, 2/23
RSVP here: bit.ly/kcbrubudget26
Join us TODAY at 2 PM to learn how to tell YOUR story during the upcoming budget hearings. Following yesterday's BRU launch, let's keep the momentum up and make our voices heard!
RSVP: bit.ly/kcbrutestimony221
📍PH Coffee, 2200 Lexington Ave
🕑 2 PM today, 2/21
less than one hour until the rally!
see you at 31st and Troost soon 🔥
Join us today for the official launch of @kcbusriders.bsky.social!
CORRECTION: Launch date is February 20th, not January 20th!
BRU Launch Rally: Feb 20th, 4 pm Rally, 5 pm Canvass at 31st & Troost Park and Ride on February 20 at 4pm to officially launch Kansas City Bus Riders Union and demand that KCMO City Council fully fund buses to prevent the loss of routes and current hours of operation. Afterwards, we're going to canvass bus stops to invite bus riders to join the BRU and attend the upcoming budqet hearings! Then, we'll celebrate together! We deserve a bus system that serves us and doesn't leave us in the dust.
Get prepped for budget season Join the BRU to advocate for our bus system while City Hall negotiates the year's budget. Feb 21: Bus Rider Testimony Workshop: Learn how to craft a powerful budget testimony demanding full bus funding. Feb 23, Mar 2 & 7: KC Budget Hearings: Use those testimonies to fight for a fully-funded bus system at City Hall.
GET CONNECTED Website & Email sign-up: kcbusriders.neocities.org Instagram: @kcbusriders Bluesky: @kcbusriders.bsky.social
Learn more and sign up to our launch events:
BRU Launch Rally ➡️ bit.ly/kcbrulaunch26
Bus Rider Testimony Workshop ➡️ bit.ly/kcbrutestimony221
Budget Hearings ➡️ bit.ly/kcbrubudget26
Follow along at @kcbusriders.bsky.social
Who's the BRU for? The BRU is for bus riders and their allies - for all Kansas Citians who want to improve the place they live and love and be there for their neighbors. It's for the single mom, the person trying to get to their job, the elderly, students, and children. It's for the working class, those trying to get back on their feet, the friends and family trying to stay connected. It's for you. We aren't leaving anyone behind.
Why a union? The traditional role of a union is to organize working people to fight for their interests by leveraging their collective power. Rider and transit unions have followed this model by organizing communities to successfully champion and win better bus systems across the nation. Transit riders are the experts on the needs of the system! From LA to Seattle to Philadelphia, riders unions have fought for and won increased funding, greener buses, reduced fares, expanded & faster service, and so much more. It's time for Kansas City to do the same.
Sound like something you want to be a part of? Join us! We launch this month and begin the work of demanding a fully-funded bus system.
For many years, the bus system in Kansas City has been under threat, leaving bus riders stranded and uncertain about the future of our buses. WE DESERVE BETTER! A new chapter for buses in KC awaits... Follow along at @kcbusriders.bsky.social
IMAGINE THIS KC BUS SYSTEM: FAST You can reliably get where you're going without worrying about being late, missing the appointment, or getting stranded. FREQUENT You're connected to the whole metro, vour loved ones, and all the ways you meet your needs. Bus stops have benches and amenities that make waiting more pleasant. FREE Fares don't restrict your mobility. Plus, you save money and time by avoiding car expenses and parking. Sound great? Well, theres a group working to make it happen...
introducing the Kansas City Bus Riders Union Bus riders and community members fighting for better transit without leaving anyone behind. A fully-funded, reliable, accessible bus system makes life in Kansas City better for everyone. Join us.
What is the Bus Riders Union The Bus Riders Union (BRU) is a coalition of community members across the Kansas City metro led by bus riders. We are organizing to fight for equitable freedom of movement by advocating for the diverse needs of bus riders through holding decision-makers accountable. We affirm the right of all to access frequent, reliable, and safe buses, ensuring a connected community.
A new chapter for buses in Kansas City is here—KC Bus Riders Union launching next week! 🔥
🚌 January 20th. You don’t want to miss it.
Join your neighbors in fighting for the bus system we all deserve! ❤️🔥💪
Top text: We deserve better buses! Picture of Ride KC Bus overlaid on "FAST FREQUENT FREE" Bottom text: Introducing the Kansas City Bus Riders Union.
The Bus Riders Union is a coalition of community members across the Kansas City metro led by bus riders. We are organizing to fight for equitable freedom of movement by advocating for the diverse needs of bus riders through holding decision-makers accountable. We affirm the right of all to access frequent, reliable, and safe buses, ensuring a connected community.
SAVE THESE DATES: Feb. 20: Bus Riders Union Launch & Canvass - Official launch rally and canvass to invite bus riders to join. Feb. 21: Bus Rider Testimony Workshop - Learn how to craft a powerful budget testimony demanding full bus funding. Feb. 23, Mar. 2, & Mar. 7: KC Budget Hearings - Use those testimonies to fight for a fully-funded Bus system at City Hall.
We deserve a bus system that serves us and doesn't leave anyone behind.
KC Bus Riders Union launching soon... 🔜🚌
Follow along @kcbusriders.bsky.social
kcbusriders.neocities.org
It’s people vs billionaires. Show up and defend your city from the oligarchy.
Email the Port KC board to demand they stop rubber stamping billionaire handouts.
📆Go to smvmt.org/april28 to sign up for the action
📧Go to smvmt.org/rejectgoogle to email the Port KC Board
On top of this, data centers destroy our planet and drive up our utility prices.
We need good schools, transit, housing, jobs, and food for our people.
At a time when Kansas Citians struggle to make ends meet, it is outrageous for PortKC to prioritize lining the pockets of billionaires.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is a tech oligarch lining up behind Trump, supporting authoritarianism so that he and his fellow billionaire cronies can keep getting richer. Tech billionaires like Sundar have enough money to literally buy our democracy – they don’t need another taxpayer handout.
SIGN UP HERE TO JOIN US AT MONDAY’S PORT KC BOARD MEETING
smvmt.org/april28
PORT KC: No Handouts For Billionaires! Oligarchs Out of KC!
🤢 The unelected board of Port KC is set to vote THIS MONDAY on a $10 billion bond and 25 year property tax handout for Google in order to build another data center in the area.
This is straight out to the authoritarian playbook: silence dissent by making people scared to speak up.
The Democratic Party should be fighting like hell against these illegal actions by the Trump admin.
This is a bogus, sloppy plan that helps no one. But we have power to stop it and demand something better.
Send a new email to the Mayor & City Council demanding they fix this mess before riders and workers have to pay the price!
smvmt.org/fixthismess
📆 only 7 routes on weekends
⏱️ drastic cuts to frequency
🌜 limited service hours
👷🏾 union job layoffs
♿️ paratransit access impacted
NO WEEKEND SERVICE IS A BUS CUT.
LESS FREQUENCY IS A BUS CUT.
AND BUS CUTS KILL UNION JOBS.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
KCMO & KCATA Leaders think they can play bus riders and workers for fools 😡
KCMO transit funding ordinance #250247 DOESN’T FULLY FUND BUSES.
KCATA announces drastic FREQUENCY, SERVICE REDUCTIONS AND LAYOFFS EVEN UNDER PROPOSED 6-MONTH FUNDING PLAN.
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As a result of our collective pressure—1000s of emails, hundreds of calls, and direct action—Council & KCATA know that a less frequent, inaccessible bus system is deeply unpopular and harmful to riders.
They claim to have a plan on the table to fully fund buses. They’re lying.
🔊 ERICA FLORES FROM @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social TAKES THE MIC
Joint Statement to Mayor Quinton Lucas and KCMO City Council: Reject KCATA Service Cuts and Fully Fund Our Transit Whether we are Black, white, or Brown; East of Troost or West of Troost, North of the river or South of the river, we want our communities to be connected, inclusive and vibrant. As organizations representing thousands of Kansas City residents, we write to express our deep concern about the city's current budget proposal for the Kansas City Area Transit Authority (KCATA). The current budget you are considering will cut 13 major bus routes and up to 175 good-paying union bus driver and maintenance jobs, as well as reducing frequency, operating hours and weekend service.
It will also suspend the IRIS microtransit program and eliminate the jobs of as many as 100 IRIS drivers. Workers, riders, and our environment cannot afford these cuts. These cuts would create a transit crisis in our city at precisely the wrong moment. As we work to build a more equitable Kansas City and prepare for increased visibility during the 2026 World Cup, dismantling our public transportation infrastructure sends the wrong message about our priorities and values. We urge you to keep our public transit system whole by fully funding KCATA’s budget in the upcoming fiscal year and rejecting any and all proposed service cuts for the transit agency as you finalize the City budget this month.
Our joint statement calling on Mayor Lucas and City Council to reject KCATA service cuts and fully fund our transit.
#SaveOurTransit #MOworkers #DrivingChange #StandUpKC #1u #UnionsForAll
Robust and reliable public transit is critical for the Kansas City area, our Local 1287 members demand the City invest in the KCATA. #ATUStrongerTogether #1u
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You can say routes will be saved but if the money isn’t there, the cuts will happen. If not the routes, it will be longer wait times.
Just b/c this wasn’t public until recently doesn’t mean city public works havnt been collaborating w/ kcata for months on plans to gut service
$6.8m is a start but not nearly enough to actually stop the service cuts and worker layoffs
We hope to see more movement on this before the budget is finalized
Join us tomorrow at city hall to make sure elected leaders back up statements with action
bit.ly/savekcbuses
Big red text at the top reads: “Save our Transit Rally.” The black text underneath reads: “Rally to save our Transit, our Freedom, our Future.” The white text with a black background underneath reads: “Thursday 3/20 @ 12:45PM.” The black text underneath reads: KCMO City Hall. 414 E 12th St, Kansas City, MO 64106.” There is a picture of workers from a rally to save KC buses. Underneath the picture is text that reads: KCMO City Council is considering cutting nearly half its bus routes, 175 good union transit and 100 IRIS microtransit driver jobs, and ending the IRIS program. Rally with us on the north steps to prevent a crisis for riders, drivers, and all Kansas Citians!” At the bottom are the logos of Stand Up KC, Sunrise Movement KC, Amalgamated Transit Union, and Missouri Workers Center.
📣 Rally with us, @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social, and @atucomms.bsky.social to save our Transit, our Freedom, and our Future! 12:30PM on 3/20 at KCMO City Council (414 E 12th St).
Public health & safety, economic freedom, clean air, and more are all reasons why our elected leaders MUST do right by the people and fund buses.
No layoffs, No route cuts, No longer wait times, No excuses
Go to bit.ly/savekcbuses or the link in our bio to sign up now!!!!!!!!
❗️News broke today confirming that half of KC’s bus service will be cut and hundreds of workers laid off if City Council and the Mayor don’t act to fund buses.
The moment is here and it’s time to throw down before we no longer have a bus system to throw down for. 🚍
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ALL ABOARD, KANSAS CITY📢📢📢
Join us alongside @atucomms.bsky.social and @moworkers.org to fight for our buses next thursday at city hall!
Show up at 12:45, rally starts at 1. We will pack city hall chambers after as council approves the final city budget. 💪
