The mayoral forum will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:

• New ideas for sustainable funding streams to improve and expand public transportation
• Ensuring that public transportation keeps pace with job growth in the outer boroughs
• Safety for both the riding public and transit workers
• Hurricane Sandy and the impact of climate change on New York’s public transit system

This event is co-sponsored by:

• Latino Leadership Institute
• New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
• New Yorkers for Safe Transit Coalition Partners (Audre Lorde Project, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Girls for Gender Equity, HollabackNYC, Make the Road NY, NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, Right Rides for Women’s Safety, The Ali Forney Center, The Anti-Violence Project, TWU Local 100, UPROSE, WEACT for Environmental Justice)
• Transit Forward Coalition Partners (La Fuente, NYC Parents Union, UPROSE, Urban Neighborhood Services, TWU Local 100)
• Transport Workers Union Local 100

About NYFST and Transit Forward:

• New Yorkers for Safe Transit (www.NYFST.org) is the only coalition of community-based organi-zations working to eliminate gender and discrimination based violence, including street harassment and assault, which occurs in New York City’s mass transit system.
• Transit Forward is the only grassroots coalition organized by transit riders and workers in New York.