Just one week away until the RUMBLE...

On June 4th, a convoy of buses will rumble from across Pennsylvania toward the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. We'll deliver solid information at the offices of every single one of our state legislators about why public transit is crucial to the health of all of our communities. Then we'll raise a mighty human rumble up to the tip-top of the Rotunda dome at a rally, with speakers that include State Senators and Representatives, as well as riders and drivers from across Pennsylvania. 

Please join us! Port Authority buses will be leaving on Tuesday morning, at 7:30 am from two locations;

• Freedom Corner in the Hill District, at the corner of Crawford and Centre.  
• David Lawrence Convention Center underpass, near the intersection of 10th St. and Penn Ave and 10th St. Directions are on this web page. 

You can reserve your free meal and spot on the buses to Harrisburg here. You can take an 82 bus from downtown to Freedom Corner; for the 82 schedule, click here. You can find multiple buses which will bring you within close proximity to the Convention Center pickup location here: portauthority.org. 

Please pass on the invitation to your friends, family, co-workers, and to your fellow transit riders and drivers!

General Membership meeting this Saturday, May 18th

We're in the home stretch before the Harrisburg rally on June 4th in support of public transit funding legislation. Please join us for our General Membership meeting on Saturday at 10 am at One Smithfield in the Human Services Building. Help us plan how to fill the buses to rumble the rotunda! 

Here's the agenda:

1. Harrisburg rally planning
2. Petition drive: upcoming signature collection events
3. Transit Tales story recording - sign up to tell your own experiences of our public transit system
4. Fundraising

PPT celebrates Transit Day!

Pittsburghers for Public Transit joined GoBurgh to help kick off the first annual Transit Day in Market Square on Thursday, May 9th.  We helped distribute "Transit YES!" pins while collecting signatures for our Transit Bill of Rights.  Thanks to the organizers and everyone who turned out and signed up to help support the push for sustainable, dedicated funding for public transportation!

You can help us keep the pressure on our government officials to stop the cuts and create more, better, and cheaper public transportation by joining PPT and our coalition partners statewide to Rumble the Rotunda in Harrisburg on June 4!  Register today by clicking on the "Rally Registration" in our top menu.

Even if you can't make the rally, you can still aid in our efforts by signing onto the Transit Bill of Rights Petition and getting your friends and family, neighbors and coworkers to do the same!  You can easily do so right now online by clicking on the above tab.  More transit, not less!

Transit Day is May 9th!

To draw attention to this crucial public infrastructure, both the Pittsburgh City Council and Allegheny County Council will be proclaiming May 9th to be Transit Day!

To celebrate our public transit system, Josh Verbanets of local band Meeting of Important People will rock Market Square at noon on May 9th, along with GoBurgh, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, the ATU, the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network, the Committee for Accessible Transit and many other coalition partner community organizations and businesses.

Speakers will include County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, ATU Local 85 President Steve Palonis, and State Senators Jay Costa (D) and Randy Vulakovich (R).

GoBurgh and Pittsburghers for Public Transit invite all transit supporters to join us for music and rally to call on all our elected officials at both local and state levels to support the public transit so crucial to the health of our communities!