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Advocacy Hot Take on Bus Line Refresh: Riders Should Help Shape a Good Plan, but Our Agency Needs to Fix the Basics Before Implementing It
Outline of this blog: Other resources from Pittsburghers for Public Transit’s Research Committee to learn more about the Bus Line Refresh: You Gotta Take a Look at This: Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s Bus Line Refresh In March of 2026, Pittsburgh Regional Transit dropped their “Bus Line Refresh” Draft 2.0, a proposed redrawing of our transit system’s […]
ACTION ALERT: We Need Reliable, Robust Service that Serves Us
Image Description: a red PRT bus under a dark overpass at night, with its headlights on and ramp extended. To the right is white text reading “We need service that serves us: PRT’s annual service report fails to acknowledge ridership, reliability crises”, decorated with a red starburst. We deserve a transit system worth fighting for. […]
What we learned about transit from the NFL Draft (and how we can use it to win better service)
Image Description: photo of Downtown Pittsburgh taped on a paper background, with stickers of a football and a red PRT bus. New data shows that transit was the star of the NFL Draft—here’s what we learned (and how we can use it to win better transit in the future)!
Communities Most-Harmed by PRT’s Draft 2.0 Bus Line Refresh
These communities will lose all service with the Bus Line Refresh proposal – RSVP by 5/27 for your final chance to give feedback on the plan Whether you live in McKeesport or McKees Rocks, the Hill District or the South Hills, our public transit system needs to work for everyone. Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) will […]
Join Our Board! Nominations Are Open for PPT’s 2026 Board Elections
PPT Members are invited to join the leadership team to coordinate the strategic direction of Pittsburghers for Public Transit. Nominations open until July 5th. Voting open from July 8th to August 12th. Pittsburghers for Public Transit is a grassroots union of transit riders, transit workers and neighbors. We fight for a public transit system that […]
Pittsburghers for Public Transit is excited to welcome Ren Finkel to our staff team!
Image Description: a glowy, collaged picture of Ren Finkel, a light-skinned person in dark clothes and round glasses standing against a brick wall in the sunshine. At the end of 2025, the PPT Board decided to open a new staff position for a Digital Organizer – Data Lead. The Data Lead role would help the […]
Sidewalk summer is back: hit the streets with PPT for sidewalk audits
Image Description: PPT members highlighted in yellow, on a glowy background of a bus stop on a summer day. Bust out those cell phones and lace up those sneakers! Transit riders in Pittsburgh want more bus shelters, better bus stop amenities and connected sidewalks that take us to and from where we need to go! […]
Transit Riders & Workers Skill Up at Organizing Spring Training
Image Description: Group photo at spring training has 100 people holding up signs and smiling with fists up. Transit for All means every community – urban and rural, large and small – and thats who the movement is fighting for! 150 transit riders and transit workers from across Pennsylvania and the United States gathered at […]