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National Transit Advocacy Spring Training

Get your tickets today! Join riders and workers from across the US at the National Transit Advocacy Spring Training, April 25th and 26th in Pittsburgh, PA!   Get ready for the 2025 National Transit Advocacy Spring Training! Riders, workers and transit supporters from across the country will meet in Pittsburgh, PA April 25th and 26th […]

It’s Transit Worker Appreciation Day! 🎉

  This Transit Worker Appreciation Day, we’re showing the love and showing up for transit funding! Whether you ride the T in the South Hills, drive the bus out of the West Mifflin Garage, cruise down the Martin Luther King Jr. Busway, or work on power and signal out of South Hills Junction, workers and […]

Apply Today! New Mon Valley Transit Organizing Fellowship

Apply Today! PPT’s New Organizing Fellowship Will Train More Transit Advocates in the Mon Valley No matter what place you call home, everyone in Allegheny County deserves safe, accessible, affordable, and reliable public transportation. However, a lack of investment in our public transit, environmental crises, increases in the costs of housing, and social inequity have […]

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RESPONSE: Riders and Workers Need a State Transit Budget That Moves Us

Whether you’re from State College or Scranton, Philly or Erie, every Pennsylvanian deserves transportation access to opportunity. On Feb 4th, National Transit Equity Day, Governor Shapiro didn’t deliver a public transit budget proposal that meets the needs of our Commonwealth. We need you to join thousands of transit riders and workers across the state for […]

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Welcome to our new Statewide Campaign Manager, Connor Descheemaker!

PPT welcomes Connor Descheemaker to our team as the Statewide Campaign Manager for Transit For All PA. For over a decade, PPT has been a democratic member-led organization that fights for change in our community. We have won campaigns for improved bus service, fare accessibility, affordable housing, and transit equity. These successes are fueled by […]

Tell Gov Shapiro: TRANSIT M♥VES US!

We’re Ready for a Budget that Moves Us! On February 4th, Rosa Parks’ birth date, we’re calling on Governor Shapiro to lay out a funding plan for the transit we deserve. Thank you Governor Shapiro for hearing our call to flex funding and save SEPTA. Now it’s time for you to put transit first, and […]