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JOIN PITTSBURGHERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT IN THE FIGHT TO DEFEND AND EXPAND OUR PUBLIC TRANSIT LIFELINES! IMMEDIATE ACTION ALERT: PUBLIC TRANSIT FUNDING IN DANGER. The state legislature must pass public transit funding this year, or we will face big cuts in routes and service next year. We have less that two weeks before the budget is […]

General Membership Meeting on June 15

You’re invited to join us for our monthly General Membership Meeting on Saturday, June 15th from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Allegheny County Human Services Building, One Smithfield St, in downtown Pittsburgh. This month we’ll be in the Homestead Grays conference room on the ground floor. Here’s the agenda:  Discussion of Transportation Senate Bills 1 and Senate […]

Just one week away until the RUMBLE…

On June 4th, a convoy of buses will rumble from across Pennsylvania toward the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. We’ll deliver solid information at the offices of every single one of our state legislators about why public transit is crucial to the health of all of our communities. Then we’ll raise a mighty human rumble up to the […]

General Membership meeting this Saturday, May 18th

We’re in the home stretch before the Harrisburg rally on June 4th in support of public transit funding legislation. Please join us for our General Membership meeting on Saturday at 10 am at One Smithfield in the Human Services Building. Help us plan how to fill the buses to rumble the rotunda! Here’s the agenda:1. Harrisburg […]

PPT celebrates Transit Day!

Pittsburghers for Public Transit joined GoBurgh to help kick off the first annual Transit Day in Market Square on Thursday, May 9th.  We helped distribute “Transit YES!” pins while collecting signatures for our Transit Bill of Rights.  Thanks to the organizers and everyone who turned out and signed up to help support the push for […]

Transit Day is May 9th!

To draw attention to this crucial public infrastructure, both the Pittsburgh City Council and Allegheny County Council will be proclaiming May 9th to be Transit Day! To celebrate our public transit system, Josh Verbanets of local band Meeting of Important People will rock Market Square at noon on May 9th, along with GoBurgh, Pittsburghers for […]