OPAL is holding a rally at City Hall this Wednesday to promote affordable, reliable public transportation, and JHC’s own Executive Director Charles McGee, II, has something to say about the matter: “TriMet fare increases push people off the bus and MAX, forcing poor people to purchase old polluting clunkers and worsening Portland’s public health crisis and indiscriminate emission of greenhouse gases. More pollutants means more childhood asthma, emphysema, cancer and long-term exacerbation of diabetes. More greenhouse gases means more global warming and catastrophic climate change.” Check out the complete Press Release: rallyforthebuspressrelease