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Community Meeting on Public Transportation in Baldwin
PPT will be helping to facilitate a community meeting with the residents of Baldwin to talk about the borough’s transit needs and steps that can be taken to help improve and restore service. See all the details below and help us to publicize by distributing the attached poster to your friends and neighbors! Community Meeting […]
PPT joins the ATU for Transit Action Month!
On Tuesday, May 20, members of PPT and the ATU’s Local 85 joined transit supporters from around the country in our nation’s capitol to call for federal transportation funding. The rally and lobby day was organized by the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Transit Workers’ Union as a part of their Transit Action Month campaign. […]
PAAC’s ULI Panel and MindMixer Forum
PPT was happy to be invited to present this morning to PAAC’s Urban Land Institute advisory panel on the future of our transit system. We told them about us and our Transit Bill of Rights and suggested that PAAC sign onto it. What would it look like for Port Authority to join us in affirming […]
PPT Brings the Community Transit Survey to Baldwin!
Twenty-one PPT volunteers, including eleven Port Authority riders and ten drivers, took to the streets of Baldwin on Saturday, May 10 to see if residents wanted their bus back and if they were willing to take action to get it, and the answer to both was a resounding “yes.” We surveyed over 300 people in […]
Community Mass Transit Survey Now Online
Pittsburghers for Public Transit is launching a new campaign to restore service and push for increased public inclusion in transit planning processes, and we’d like to hear your input. For starters, we’re asking for your help in assessing the need for mass transit in the North Baldwin, Brentwood, and Carrick communities. PPT is well aware […]
TRANSIT TALES: Part II
TRANSIT TALES True-life stories and panel discussion on our public transit choicesThursday, April 17th at 7pm The Kaufman Center 1835 Centre Ave (right by the Hill House) Bricolage’s Fifth Wall series seeks to break down the barriers between scripted storytelling and current events in the world at large. The 2014 Fifth Wall Series continues with […]