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Use this $$$ to build the best bus stops ever [with pics!]
This new URA grant program is an amazing opportunity for residents in the City of Pittsburgh to improve transit amenities in their neighborhood. The Neighborhood Initiatives Fund (NIF) Program will “provide grants in order to help unlock the economic and placemaking potential within neighborhoods; support vision-to-action community investment strategies that build an equitable Pittsburgh; and […]
Electric Buses in PA: The Time Is NOW
On Tuesday, September 17th, Pittsburghers for Public Transit joined our allies PennEnvironment, PennFuture and the Clean Air Council to unveil a new report from PennEnvironment and PennPIRG: “Volkswagon Settlement State Scorecards“. The report grades states on how they are using monies from the massive $4.3 Billion settlement paid by Volkswagon in 2016 after they were […]
Help push the Beyond the East Busway Campaign over the goal line
If you follow Pittsburghers for Public Transit’s work, you know we’ve spent the last three months executing a campaign with residents of the Mon Valley & Eastern Suburbs to build a grassroots vision for expanding great transit Beyond the East Busway. If you don’t follow our work, welcome! You can check out more about our […]
ACTION ALERT: Call for Transit Passes + Affordability at Giant Eagle Shakespeare Redevelopment
For those that may not have heard, the Shakespeare Giant Eagle is being redeveloped by Echo Realty, along with the entire strip mall and lot at the corner of Shady and Penn. The Shakespeare site is directly adjacent to the East Busway, Port Authority’s highest performing asset carrying around 24,000 riders each day, and it […]
Why on-demand transit wouldn’t work for Hazelwood
In his recent article “What is “Microtransit” For?”, transit expert Jarrett Walker breaks down why microtransit, like an on-demand shuttle, isn’t a transportation solution for a site like Hazelwood Green. His reasoning underscores the points that PPT and residents of these neighborhoods have been saying all along: Any Mon-Oakland Connector project that focuses on micro/on-demand/autonomous […]
Port Authority’s Q3 Service Adjustments, with comment from @PGH_Bus_Info Hotline
Each quarter the Port Authority adjusts its transit schedules and routes to account for rider’s requests, ridership shifts, construction, road closures and/or all of the other unexpected hiccups that might affect Pittsburgh roads. In case you missed it, the most recent set of schedule adjustments will go into effect on Sunday, Sept. 1st, 2019. You […]
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 💙💙
Today is a good day to reflect on the tragedies of colonialism and white supremacy.
Our country's economic system is *still* benefiting off of a legacy of stolen land and stolen peoples.
So today, honor indigenous lives.
And tomorrow, fight for indigenous sovereignty.
From the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Analyzing bus stops throughout the county to improve performance is good housekeeping. But the Port Authority cannot rely on internal data alone to make its decision."
~25% of bus stops are being cut on the 16 and 51, the 13, 15, 17, 19L, 48, 51L, 54, 55, 59, Y46, Y47, Y49 will also be affected. See PAAC's plan and give your input here: www.portauthority.org/busstop
Make time for the public: Port Authority needs meetings on proposed stop cuts
Making time to hear the concerns of the public should not be a particularly big ask of the Port Authority."Silicon Valley companies are selling the idea of escape to those who can afford it—often at the direct expense of those who can’t."
The answer for wide-spread, equitable, environmentally sustainable transportation will always be public transit.
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Inequality Is Slowing Cities to a Crawl
As big cities face a mobility crisis, tech companies are selling wealthy urbanites on the fantasy of escaping it.Edited: Love and solidarity to our academic sisters and brothers at Tech for Society and the other students that attended, fighting against the software company Palantir, and insisting that Carnegie Mellon University not aid ICE in their immoral deportations of undocumented families! Special shoutout to the protest organizer and PPT member Bonnie Fan, and João Martins! www.wesa.fm/post/software-companys-recruitment-visit-cmu-met-protestors?fbclid=IwAR3f_Mtynjd57A9s...
Software Company's Recruitment Visit To CMU Met By Protestors
Students protested at Carnegie Mellon University Wednesday against a campus recruitment visit by software company Palantir. The business contracts with U.SWe need policies that tie affordable housing to good transit. With the zoning commission and city planning, with the URA, with the Housing Authorities, and with the Port Authority. And we need them NOW:
"For Constancetein Evans, a recent move to Wilmerding brought both obstacles and benefits.
She’s able to afford her own apartment in the borough southeast of Pittsburgh. She sees that as a better environment for her children than subsidized housing on North Side.
But she’s limited by transit. Getting to a food bank is more difficult. And she relies on a network of bus routes to get to work as a home health caregiver.
“I still struggle,” said Evans, 39. “I don’t live in the city of Pittsburgh. I’m not in Homewood, I’m not in East Liberty, I’m not in Garfield, I’m not in Point Breeze or any of the areas where you can get help.” www.publicsource.org/in-the-mon-valley-public-transit-limitations-are-felt-by-residents-whove-lef...