This general operating grant provides resources to Ride New Orleans for their leadership of the Coalition for Quality Transit, their youth leadership cultivation, and their state-level advocacy. Building on our funding report, we continue to advocate for robust, equitable transit investment through strategic partnerships, policy research, and detailed budget analyses at the city and state levels. In addition, our funding call to action includes RIDE’s Growth Network Scenario, which calls for increasing bus and streetcar service from 8.3 million vehicle revenue miles in 2022 to 14.8 million VRM by 2033, our access-to-jobs metric, a deep dive into local city and state budgets, as well as robust policy work that provides tangible and attainable funding recommendatio