Transit service is at risk in Pittsburgh and across PA. Pittsburghers for Public Transit is meeting this moment with phenomenal organizing. We are mobilizing advocates all over our state to fight for service, with no one left behind.
Will you join as a dues-paying member during our Mid-Year Membership Drive to build this movement?
I’m a retired educator fighting with PPT for my small-town bus service. Will you join me by becoming a dues-paying member?
My name is Joan Monroe. I live in Trafford, PA, a little borough east of Allegheny County. Public transit is important to me because it is the lifeblood of my community.
My community relies on public transit to access jobs, healthcare, family, and more – not to mention all those who take the bus to Trafford to shop and work! I started organizing Trafford to support transit in 2024, after Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s proposed Bus Line Redesign threatened to cut all our bus service. Then, in March 2025, PRT announced that without more funding from the state, it would have to slash all its service by 60% or more—with the worst cuts borne by senior citizens and people with disabilities who ride paratransit.
Even worse, since the funding crisis is statewide, every transit system in PA—including Westmoreland county transit—would have to make similar cuts, endangering their existence altogether.
I wasn’t about to let that happen. I’m a retired union member, so I know the value of public services—and I know that if we organize together, we can fight for them and win.
I knew I had to step up my organizing, and I knew PPT would help me do it.
With support from PPT’s statewide coalition, Transit for All PA!, I mobilized my community to contact our senator—who just so happens to be the PA Senate President Pro Tempore. Together, we even got a billboard put up in the middle of Trafford with her phone number!
This is why I am a member of PPT, and why I think you should join us.
Our Transit for All PA! Coalition is the only group that has proposed a real solution to this crisis—one that is realistic, achievable, equitable, and responsive to transit riders’ and workers’ needs. After just three months of organizing, we’ve sent 124,000 letters to our legislators urging them to protect public transit, and brought over 300 people to Harrisburg to rally with us for a better budget. I believe that, if we all pitch in, we can fight for transit funding that truly serves us.
That’s why I wanted to ask: will you support PPT by becoming a dues-paying member today?
It has never been more urgent to support PPT’s work. You can join for just $2.75—the current cost of a PRT bus fare! That money goes directly towards advocacy for a transit budget that moves ALL Pennsylvanians—whether they live in big cities, or smaller boroughs and towns, like me.