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 riders of public transit across Allegheny County and all of Pennsylvania are facing a funding crisis that stands to cut our service down to unprecedented levels.
On Tuesday, March 18th, PPT is meeting the challenge with a day of organizing–and, most importantly, celebrating the transit workers who keep our communities moving! By celebrating Transit Worker Appreciation Day with us, you’ll have the chance to give your favorite bus, T, or busway drivers some love, while also standing up to protect their jobs and transit service across the state.
Want to share the love? Here’s how:
1. Sign our petition to tell the state government: protect and expand our transit funding!
2. Sign up to canvass with us! Educate riders and show transit workers some love!
We will be out in full force talking to riders about who PPT is, the current PA state funding crisis threatening to impact public transportation, and asking them to share goodie bags of tasty treats and PPT swag with their operator when they board the bus.
Participants can choose from two different canvassing shifts: 7am-9am or 4pm-6pm (or join us for both!). We will meet to review the plan, and during the shift we will work in teams at a handful of busy bus stops. We’ll end with a debrief at the same location we began at.
Bring warm layers, good shoes and a big smile. There will be plenty of waving and exclamations of “Happy Transit Worker Appreciation Day!” when the bus door slides open!
Want to learn more?
The fight for statewide transit funding goes way beyond Transit Worker Appreciation Day–we’re organizing for it all day, every day! Check out our statewide campaign and sign on to our platform by visiting the Transit for All PA! website.