Policy & Funding
Discover why better policy and investments in transit, walking, biking, and rolling are the best move for Minnesota.
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May 4, 2025
Transit Advocates Push Minnesota Lawmakers to Vote Against Bad Transportation Bill
To create a transportation system that works for everyone we know we have to do more than pass policies and secure resources. We have to show up, year after year, to protect our progress and defend our wins. The 2025 state legislative session has illustrated that cycle—and this week we saw on the House and Senate floors how advocacy makes a difference.
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April 25, 2025
We Can’t Delay in Driving Down Emissions: Defending Essential Climate Solutions at the State Capitol
Just two years ago, Minnesota made national headlines, passing a groundbreaking transportation bill that included transformative investments in public transit and urgently needed policies to protect our climate from transportation pollution. Now, some lawmakers are trying to destroy this hard-won progress with a bad transportation bill that would delay our Driving Down Emissions law, prioritizing highway expansion over the health of our climate and communities.
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March 25, 2025
New Policy Analysis Shows State Transportation Departments are Key to Climate Progress and Consumer Savings
With Move Minnesota and our local and national allies, an unprecedented network emerges from behind the scenes to keep momentum going on transportation reform in Minnesota.
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March 4, 2025
Advocates and Elected Champions Celebrate Progress, Commit to Defend Essential State Investments in Public Transit
More than 75 transit riders and elected champions came together in community to celebrate our nation-leading state funding and policy wins for public transit—and to gear up to defend those investments during the 2025 legislative session.
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February 19, 2025
As New Legislative Session Begins, So Do Bipartisan Attacks on Transit Funding
As Minnesota’s 2025 legislative session gets underway, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing unacceptable anti-transit proposals. It’s frustrating to watch. But as long-time advocates who have seen this playbook before, we are ready for defense.
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January 24, 2025
2025 Legislative Priorities: Continuing the fight for a transportation system that puts people first
In 2025, protecting and expanding the critical transit and climate progress we've made for Minnesota families is more important than ever. This legislative session, we're fighting for new resources and policies to improve transit access, make our communities more affordable and connected, and create a better future for all.
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August 21, 2024
USDOT to America: We Need to Drive Less
This summer, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) explicitly named the need to meaningfully reduce driving to meet the nation’s climate goals. Move Minnesota joined hundreds of advocates, policy experts, and DOT leadership in Washington D.C. last month to coordinate strategies on how to shift transportation and land use policies to meet this moment.
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August 21, 2024
Charging Up Investments in Cleaner Transit
Taking public transit is always more sustainable than driving alone, but using electric, zero-emissions buses does even more to reduce air pollution and advance health equity. Thanks to federal funding and advocacy from a broad coalition of organizations, Metro Transit has an additional $20 million to grow its fleet of electric buses.
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July 24, 2024
Broad Coalition Builds Momentum that Connects Housing, Transit, Climate, and Land Use
During the 2024 legislative session, Move Minnesota and Move Minnesota Action advocated alongside partners for important land use bills that would make our communities more connected and help ensure ongoing transit investments can have the greatest positive impact for years to come.