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The Myth of the $100,000 Bus Driver
There have been rumors and misinformation heard from time to time that Port Authority drivers are paid huge salaries of up to $100,000 a year. These attempts to blame the hard-working drivers for the cuts in bus service don’t stand up to the facts.The starting hourly wage for a PAT driver is $16.05. The top […]
Keep the ‘Public’ in Public Transit: Privatization is a Bad Deal
by Andrew Wagner photo by Dawn Jackman-Biery With the Port Authority of Allegheny County in financial trouble, we’re hearing the call for “privatization” from some powerful political and business interests. These privatizers include some of the same politicians whose failure to adequately fund transit helped create the crisis, and they include business people who see […]
Transportation is Our Need – and Our Right
photo by Dawn Jackman-Biery by Mel Packer Imagine, Dear Rider, that you go to your usual bus or trolley stop and find that it is strangely silent, that others have been standing for quite a while and no bus has been seen. You ask another rider who tells you that the news says that the […]
3/26 Rally, OnoRATo Refuses the Union’s Concessions, Cuts Transit, Lays Off 180
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Stop the Cuts! 24 Hours of Action!
Stop the Cuts! Sign-up for 24 Hours of Action to Save Public Transit in Allegheny County! Beginning at 11:00 AM on Thursday, March 24 through 11:00 AM Friday, March 25 Culminating in a rally on Friday at 8:30 AM before the Port Authority Board Meeting At Port Authority Head Quarters, 6th St. and Smithfield Ave. […]
3/19/11 MARCH TO STOP THE CUTS!
VIDEO:WPXI – http://www.wpxi.com/news/27250940/detail.htmlWTAE – http://www.wtae.com/news/27251486/detail.html Photos by Dawn Jackman-Biery From the Post-Gazette: Nancy Downie of Delmont had never participated in a protest in all of her 58 years but Saturday she joined a Squirrel Hill march and rally by an estimated 500 like-minded opponents of impending Port Authority service cuts. Simply put, she came “to […]
The $23 million dollar roadway built for the Mon-Oakland shuttle will be obsolete almost as soon as it is built. The City anticipates that it will carry 180 passengers a day between Hazelwood and Oakland. By contrast, Hazelwood Green anticipates 20,413 commuter trips to the site by 2028. The shuttle WILL NOT EVEN PUT A DENT in the commuter traffic and air pollution into the community.
The Mon-Oakland Connector, however, WILL drive up housing rental prices in Hazelwood, Four Mile Run, Greenfield and Panther Hollow. Residents have fought hard to win pedestrian amenities and close trail gaps as part of this project. But without protections against housing speculation and displacement, current residents won't be the ones that will benefit from these improvements because they'll be pushed out.
Join us to uplift resident-led transportation needs and solutions instead of the Mon-Oakland Connector shuttle roadway at the City's FINAL virtual public meeting about the project this Wed, Oct 21, from 6-8 pm! Find out more and register to attend below.
www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/last-chance-for-transit-equity-final-public-meeting-on-the-mon...
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The LAST VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING for the Mon Oakland Connector shuttle roadway project is scheduled for Wednesday, 10/21, 6-8pm Transit equity means that public transportation investments must benefit ...The Foundations that own Hazelwood Green should fund the extension of the 75 from Oakland and into Hazelwood as residents have been calling for with the Our Money, Our Solutions plan, instead of pushing the Mon-Oakland Connector shuttle roadway. The 75 bus would connect more residents to more destinations (connecting Hazelwood, Southside and Oakland), save us tens of millions of taxpayer dollars (during a City budget crisis), and yield the same anticipated travel times between Hazelwood and Oakland. And the 75 expansion could happen IMMEDIATELY, not 2+ years down the road.
Residents in Hazelwood deserve access to food, jobs and healthcare now.
Join us for the City's final virtual public meeting on the Mon-Oakland Shuttle roadway project this upcoming Wednesday, Oct 21, from 6-8 pm. Find out more on resident-led efforts to win transportation solutions to meet their needs, and register to attend below. www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/last-chance-for-transit-equity-final-public-meeting-on-the-mon...
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The LAST VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING for the Mon Oakland Connector shuttle roadway project is scheduled for Wednesday, 10/21, 6-8pm Transit equity means that public transportation investments must benefit ...This should be the kind of progressive funding mechanism that we're looking at in PA to maintain and grow transit service, as our current state transit funding legislation (Act 89) sunsets. Corporations 👏 Should 👏 Pay 👏 For 👏 Public 👏 Transit!
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Portland Asks: Should Corporations Pay for Transit?
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The Portland area is poised to pass a ballot measure that could radically increase pedestrian infrastructure and transit access for communities of color — but opposition is coming from big corporat....🗣️ LISTEN UP! 🚨 $28,019,359 went to Port Authority in 2018 from federal programs that use census data to allocate funds.
This is that last call to fill out your census. Get our transit money. Do it now. Do it here: 2020census.gov
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Meeting TONIGHT! Help us strategize on our campaigns for transit equity!
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