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PGH Residents Makes it Known, They Need To Be Part of the City’s Driverless Tech Conversation
On Thursday, July 18th, more than 70 residents from Hazelwood, the Run, Panther Hollow, and the surrounding communities made it known: the public wants to be included in the City’s decisions about driverless vehicle technology on their public streets with their public money. The high turnout at PPT’s first forum on driverless vehicle technology shows […]
“Wait, Who’s Driving This Thing?” PPT’s New Lit Review & Position Paper On Driverless Vehicles
In the three years since driverless vehicles have been tested in real-life on Pittsburgh streets, the City has not hosted a single opportunity for residents to learn more about the technology’s impacts or decide if unproven AV solutions are worthy of public investment. Yet, the City of Pittsburgh has moved forward with earmarking millions of […]
Bringing the Public to the Autonomous Vehicle Table
Pittsburghers deserve a public conversation about driverless vehicles in our city. Pittsburghers for Public Transit believes that residents are long-overdue for a public conversation about the autonomous vehicles that have been roaming our streets for the last three years. There are now five different companies testing their technology in our neighborhoods and millions of tax-payer […]
Organizing Fellows Lead Beyond the East Busway Outreach
PPT is ecstatic to announce that the 1st cohort of Beyond the East Busway Fellows has been trained and is currently leading campaign outreach in the Mon Valley and eastern suburbs. These 8 talented organizers all have deep connections to these communities. They personally understand the importance of transit and are ready to build a […]
Media Roundup: Beyond the East Busway
Pittsburgh media was eager to cover the release of PPT’s new Beyond the East Busway participatory transit planning tool. Within hours, 5 local outlets had covered the release and dozens of people had completed the tool. We’re encouraged to have this coverage. This grassroots participation is what we need to drive transit expansion in our […]
Beyond the East Busway Tool is Live!
On Wednesday, June 25th, Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PPT) launched a grassroots planning tool for transit riders and residents to envision better public transit for the Mon Valley and Eastern Suburbs. This innovative transit mapping tool, entitled Beyond the East Busway, emerges from the belief that those most impacted by planning decisions are best-suited to […]
Its time to hit the brakes on the City of PGH's investment in this unproven experimental technology.
Instead, lets put our public dollars into what we know will improve mobility now - sidewalks, bus routes, bus lanes, bike lanes.
Pedestrian collision puts Vienna’s driverless bus trial on hold
The city has paused Navya’s trail pending a full investigationCoverage of PPT's new Literature Review on AV impacts from Streetsblog USA. As the industry tries to make PGH a hotbed for driverless vehicle companies, then PGH must also become a hotbed for corporate accountability, public transparency, and democratic community planning.
Pittsburgh Reveals the Downside of Self-Driving Cars
Wider inequality. More sprawl. Worse transit. Those are some of the outcomes we could see from self-driving cars in cities, according to a Pittsburgh-based transit advocacy group.As driverless vehicles become more common, the public needs to help shape the role the technology plays both now and in the future.
Excellent coverage on last night's discussion with Hazelwood residents on driverless tech. If the City isn't going to bring residents to the table on AV, then we are going to make our own.
The Promise Of Autonomous Vehicles Has Been Oversold In Pittsburgh, Advocates Say
The benefits driverless technology could create for cities are murkier than they seem, according to a new report released by Pittsburghers for Public“We believe fundamentally that the riders, residents and people most affected by planning decisions are the ones best suited to create solutions for their communities,” Wiens said. “So, we created this tool with the help of Civic Mapper. It's the only one of its kind as far as we can tell, nationwide.”
New Beyond the East Busway coverage from Tube City Online out of McKeesport.
Public Transit Advocates Gathering Data for East Busway Expansion - Tube City Almanac
"Tube City Online" and "The Tube City Almanac" are trademarks of Tube City Community Media Inc. registered with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mon-Yough area news, views and announcements, power...If the City of Pittsburgh won't provide space for residents to decide how driverless vehicles are deployed in their neighborhoods - then we've got to make it ourselves.
PPT is LIVE in Hazelwood - a neighborhood where the City plans to deploy an experimental driverless shuttle - to release our new Literature Review about the impacts of Driverless Vehicle Technology, and start the conversation that PGH residents have long-deserved.
See the full text of "Wait, Who's Driving This Thing?: Bringing the Public To the Autonomous Vehicle Table" here: bit.ly/WhosDriving