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Volunteer to Collect Public Input on PAAC’s New Fare Proposal
Sign up to help PPT collect feedback from bus riders on Port Authority’s new Fare Proposal In case you missed it, Port Authority released a new fare proposal back in March. The bad new is that the proposal misses a huge opportunity to create real change for low-income riders. The good news is that we […]
New Fare Proposal From Port Authority Needs to Go Further
After two years and a $210,000 study, Port Authority’s new fare proposal has been released. Public comment is being taken until May 5th. The Port Authority has finally published the fare recommendations from a 2019 $210,000 contract with Four Nine Technologies. After more than two years, and in the midst of a pandemic, Port Authority […]
Join PA Transit Riders & Workers In New Campaign to Expand Transit Funding
Transit riders and workers won’t stand for another round of service cuts, fare hikes, and layoffs! We’re building a grassroots vision to expand transit in our state – and we need you! Public transit is essential for Pennsylvanians. It keeps us moving to jobs, food, and healthcare. We won’t let our state transit funding get […]
Port Authority’s New Service Adjustments, with comment from @PGH_Bus_Info Hotline
New quarterly adjustments bring little change. Riders are left asking for the reversal of COVID service cuts. Four times every year, the Port Authority adjusts its transit schedules and routes to account for rider’s requests, ridership shifts, construction, road closures and/or all of the other unexpected hiccups that might affect Pittsburgh roads. These quarterly adjustments […]
Apply for the new Statewide Transit Rider Organizing Fellowship
Bus riders in PA are building a movement for public transit that is more affordable, reliable, and dignified for everyone in our state! Who we are and what we do PITTSBURGHERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT (PPT) and the PHILLY TRANSIT RIDERS UNION (PhillyTRU) are grassroots organizations of transit riders, transit workers, and residents. We mobilize together […]
New Statewide Campaign to Win Expanded Transit Funding in PA
Public transit is essential for Pennsylvanians – It keeps us moving to jobs, food, and healthcare. But state transportation funding is in jeopardy. But politicians have left transit riders and transit workers out of conversations about a solution. Transit riders and workers won’t stand for another round of service cuts, fare hikes, and layoffs! We […]
A Workers' Plan: A Sustainable and Socially Just Local Public Transport - The Bullet
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The commitment of public funds and the development of new funding models for local public transport (LPT) operations, maintenance and infrastructure can
Port Authority begins final phase of bus shelter replacements Monday
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Port Authority will begin removal Monday of 43 bus shelters in the last phase of a program that began in 2018 to install 190 new shelters.
Other Voices: Public transit access for all Pennsylvanians
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Eight hundred fifty-nine dollars a month. As a disabled person and proud Pittsburgher living with multiple sclerosis, that is how much I live on. When...