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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: 2020 Year-End Fundraising Campaign!
We’re in Transit towards Transformation! This year, we handed out more than 2,000 cloth masks to transit riders; we held a statewide Town Hall with PA Senator Bob Casey and more than 300 riders calling for $32 billion in transit funding relief; we won permanent weekend service improvements on the 22, 39, and 93 (among […]
Wins for Affordable Housing, Transit-Supportive Development and Food Justice at the Giant Eagle Shakespeare Redevelopment
Collectively, we have won some important housing, food and transit justice victories and set a new floor for what community benefit should be expected from development without the need for public subsidy. Over the past year and a half, neighborhood residents and organizational stakeholders from Pittsburgh United’s Housing Justice Table, Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PPT), […]
Weekend Service Victory and Service Increase on the 59-Mon Valley announced in Quarterly Service Changes!
Port Authority’s Quarterly Service Changes that go into effect this Sunday, November 22nd, will add weekend service to nearly all local routes in its system. This is an enormous victory and is the culmination of years of riders organizing neighborhood service campaigns with PPT over the last four years! Additionally, Port Authority plans to DOUBLE […]
PA Transit Riders Call for Equity and Racial Justice in the Regional Low-Carbon Transportation Program
Comments Submitted to the Transportation and Climate Initiative from Pittsburghers for Public Transit and Philly Transit Rider’s Union 10/30/20 Dear Governors and Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) Leaders: Transit rider member organizations have participated in the TCI MOU discussions for several years, and have constituencies that include frontline communities in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh region. […]
No Love for the Mon Oakland Connector at Final Public Meeting (news roundup)
At the final meeting for the Mon Oakland Connector, residents made it clear: investment needs to go to transit, sidewalks, and affordable housing – not the profits of investors. On October 20th, During the city’s first attempt at a “Final Public Meeting” on the Mon Oakland Connector, the room was full to its 100-person capacity […]
The Mon-Oakland Connector is a Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Project.
They’re back at it again: trying to use public dollars to build luxury transportation for wealthy developers. After a disastrous first attempt at a final public meeting for the Mon Oakland Connector project, the City’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, the Universities and the foundations that own Hazelwood Green are holding a second meeting on […]
Divided Senate Passes Biden’s Pandemic Aid Plan
www.nytimes.com
The chamber approved the package after a grueling marathon of amendment votes and last-ditch negotiations. The measure must now clear the House a second time.
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Get’: Port Authority Plans On A Bright Future
www.wesa.fm
The Port Authority of Allegheny County is on a quest to build a transit system that is equitable, sustainable and improves people’s lives . A new round of
Why the New Mobility Revolution Leaves Seniors Behind
usa.streetsblog.org
Elders are being left out of the new mobility revolution — and will be more so by the time autonomous vehicles come around, a new study argues.
Pittsburghers Versus the Machine
transitcenter.org
After a multi-year battle, the advocacy group Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PPT) fended off the Mon-Oakland Connector, an autonomous micro-transit project championed by Mayor Bill Peduto.
Small conveniences make a difference
www.post-gazette.com
The key word here: convenience. Utilizing technology in this way won’t revolutionize public transit but it will make life a little bit simpler.