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Advocacy Hot Take on Busline Refresh: Riders Should Help Shape a Good Plan, but Our Agency Needs to Fix the Basics Before Implementing It
Outline of this blog: You Gotta Take a Look at This: Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s Busline Redesign Refresh Two weeks ago, Pittsburgh Regional Transit dropped their “Busline Refresh” Draft 2.0, a proposed redrawing of our transit system’s bus network. This will have major impacts on our entire region – not only on transit riders and transit […]
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. […]
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 […]
Explore How the Bus Line Refresh Could Affect Your Commute
The Bus Line Refresh could be the biggest service change in a generation. Your chance to make it better is right now! Learn how the proposals could impact you—and tell PRT how you feel about it. Explore the service changes that affect you There are many ways to explore the changes PRT is proposing under […]
Transit is the Ticket to a Winning NFL Draft
On April 23-25 of this year, Pittsburgh will take the national stage by hosting the NFL draft. This will be an unprecedented opportunity to showcase our region: the event is estimated to draw between 500,000-700,000 attendees across three days, around twice the total population of the City of Pittsburgh. The NFL draft events will be […]