Tomorrow, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) around the nation will join in the National Day of Action for Public Transportation organized by Occupy Boston. ATU President Larry Hanley says public transportation is critical to our nation’s economic recovery.

Cheerfully bobbing balloons and smiling transit workers greeted commuters Tuesday morning as they emerged from the Farragut West and Farragut North Metro stations in downtown Washington, D.C., to warn commuters of the impacts of cuts to mass transit funding in cities across the nation. 

Workers and community members in Fall River and New Bedford, Mass., have come together to fight for expanded bus service in the cities where buses stop running at 6 p.m. and don’t operate at all on Sunday.