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Organizations and Residents Call for Holistic Public Process on Driverless Vehicles
For three years, City leaders have made the decision to subsidize the development of Autonomous Vehicle Technology – through the use of our roadways as a test track, through the blushing pride with which our city advertises itself as a tech hub without any regulatory framework, through the $23 million new road to accommodate an […]
Nominate advocates to join PPT’s Coordinating Committee
Join the core team of people who coordinate the direction of PPT PPT’s Coordinating Committee is the equivalent of our board of directors. We are looking for people who understand the importance of our work and are looking to get more involved in directing the course of our campaigns, communications, and actions. Structure and Expectations […]
Application Open! PPT Launches New Organizing Fellowship
Who are we PITTSBURGHERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT (PPT) is a grassroots organization of transit riders, transit workers, and residents, mobilizing for equitable, affordable, and sustainable public transit. What we do In 2018 PPT launched our Riders Vision for Public Transit. The ‘Riders Vision’ was created by dozens of transit riders and operators from across Allegheny […]
New Video: Ride public transit? You can make it better.
Hey Pittsburgh! You’re an expert in public transit, and you know how to make it better. Share your comments, ideas & questions about Port Authority and we’ll bring them with us when we ride the bus 1 on 1 with Port Authority Board Members. Bus running late?Any input on fares?Got a favorite bus driver? Leave […]
Call for a full and proper public process around autonomous vehicles
PPT believes that residents deserve a full, frank public conversation about all the possible effects of an Autonomous Vehicle future – the increase in car congestion, the job loss, the sprawl, the effect on our environment, the decrease in public transit service and ridership, the heightened displacement and gentrification, the Billions needed in public subsidy, etc. […]
Council Will Vote to Continue Moving Self-Driving Shuttle Deployment
CALL to ACTION: On Wednesday, May 15th at 10 am, 414 Grant St Pgh 15219, Pittsburgh City Council will be asked to approve a $410k grant for public outreach on self-driving cars in the Hazelwood and Greenfield neighborhoods. This is yet another indication that the City’s decision to have autonomous vehicles (AV) be the “transportation solution” for these […]
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 💙💙
Today is a good day to reflect on the tragedies of colonialism and white supremacy.
Our country's economic system is *still* benefiting off of a legacy of stolen land and stolen peoples.
So today, honor indigenous lives.
And tomorrow, fight for indigenous sovereignty.
From the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Analyzing bus stops throughout the county to improve performance is good housekeeping. But the Port Authority cannot rely on internal data alone to make its decision."
~25% of bus stops are being cut on the 16 and 51, the 13, 15, 17, 19L, 48, 51L, 54, 55, 59, Y46, Y47, Y49 will also be affected. See PAAC's plan and give your input here: www.portauthority.org/busstop
Make time for the public: Port Authority needs meetings on proposed stop cuts
Making time to hear the concerns of the public should not be a particularly big ask of the Port Authority."Silicon Valley companies are selling the idea of escape to those who can afford it—often at the direct expense of those who can’t."
The answer for wide-spread, equitable, environmentally sustainable transportation will always be public transit.
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Inequality Is Slowing Cities to a Crawl
As big cities face a mobility crisis, tech companies are selling wealthy urbanites on the fantasy of escaping it.Edited: Love and solidarity to our academic sisters and brothers at Tech for Society and the other students that attended, fighting against the software company Palantir, and insisting that Carnegie Mellon University not aid ICE in their immoral deportations of undocumented families! Special shoutout to the protest organizer and PPT member Bonnie Fan, and João Martins! www.wesa.fm/post/software-companys-recruitment-visit-cmu-met-protestors?fbclid=IwAR3f_Mtynjd57A9s...
Software Company's Recruitment Visit To CMU Met By Protestors
Students protested at Carnegie Mellon University Wednesday against a campus recruitment visit by software company Palantir. The business contracts with U.SWe need policies that tie affordable housing to good transit. With the zoning commission and city planning, with the URA, with the Housing Authorities, and with the Port Authority. And we need them NOW:
"For Constancetein Evans, a recent move to Wilmerding brought both obstacles and benefits.
She’s able to afford her own apartment in the borough southeast of Pittsburgh. She sees that as a better environment for her children than subsidized housing on North Side.
But she’s limited by transit. Getting to a food bank is more difficult. And she relies on a network of bus routes to get to work as a home health caregiver.
“I still struggle,” said Evans, 39. “I don’t live in the city of Pittsburgh. I’m not in Homewood, I’m not in East Liberty, I’m not in Garfield, I’m not in Point Breeze or any of the areas where you can get help.” www.publicsource.org/in-the-mon-valley-public-transit-limitations-are-felt-by-residents-whove-lef...