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After 3 Years, City Council Takes Up Questions of Driverless Vehicles
Last Month, after publishing its literature review “Wait, Who’s Driving This Thing?: Bringing the Public to the Autonomous Vehicle Table“, Pittsburghers for Public Transit worked with Councilmembers Theresa Kail-Smith, Deb Gross, and Corey O’Connor to hold the first City-sponsored conversation on the effects of Autonomous Vehicles. This was the first time that the Council has […]
Votes Are In: PPT Membership Elects New Coordinating Committee Members
Pittsburghers for Public Transit believes in transparency, accountability, public participation, democracy, collaboration, and shared leadership. And we want to practice what we preach. So each year PPT runs an open nomination and election process for our general membership to choose 5 people to serve on our Coordinating Committee (aka our Board of Directors). The Coordinating […]
Port Authority’s Q2 Service Changes, with comment from the PGH Bus Info Hotline
Each quarter 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. In case you missed it, the most recent set of changes went into effect Sunday, June 16, 2019. The next set of […]
“Charting a New Course for Urban Mobility”, PolicyLink Chimes Into PGH’s AV Conversation
It did not take much time for Pittsburghers for Public Transit to come to a decision about who to invite to write a forward to the organization’s new Literature Review on the impact of Autonomous Vehicle technology, “Wait, Whos Driving This Thing?: Bringing the Public to the Autonomous Vehicle Table”. Anita Cozart, Senior Director at […]
PGH Residents Makes it Known, They Need To Be Part of the City’s Driverless Tech Conversation
On Thursday, July 18th, more than 70 residents from Hazelwood, the Run, Panther Hollow, and the surrounding communities made it known: the public wants to be included in the City’s decisions about driverless vehicle technology on their public streets with their public money. The high turnout at PPT’s first forum on driverless vehicle technology shows […]
“Wait, Who’s Driving This Thing?” PPT’s New Lit Review & Position Paper On Driverless Vehicles
In the three years since driverless vehicles have been tested in real-life on Pittsburgh streets, the City has not hosted a single opportunity for residents to learn more about the technology’s impacts or decide if unproven AV solutions are worthy of public investment. Yet, the City of Pittsburgh has moved forward with earmarking millions of […]
A Green New Deal can revive our transportation system from this Covid-19 outbreak. Buses. Bikes. Walking. ow.ly/ZKl050yX0fX
A Green New Deal for City and Suburban Transportation
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Federal transportation policy is broken. American communities are suffering as a result. The U.S. transportation system is both an enormous source of carbon emissions and a major contributor to inequa..."Density makes mass transit possible. It allows for more affordable housing. It creates environments where people can walk and where children can find playgrounds. It enables us to pool risks. It supports big public hospitals and stronger safety nets. It allows us to curb climate emissions, which present a public health problem of an entirely different kind." ow.ly/v9ll50yWM1p
Density Is Normally Good for Us. That Will Be True After Coronavirus, Too.
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The very thing that has made cities vulnerable in a pandemic has protected them in other disasters."Transit networks, like hospital systems and food supply chains, are vital to the success of the COVID-19 public health response. They transport millions of essential personnel to and from their jobs every day" h/t TransitCenter transitcenter.org/2-8-million-u-s-essential-workers-ride-transit-to-their-jobs/
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Workers classified as essential during the COVID-19 emergency account for 36 percent of total transit commuters in the United States. Service must be maintained to allow for safe spacing on buses and ...BREAKING: Port Authority moves to fareless bus transit + rear-door boarding for Covid-19 outbreak. Thx PAAC for thinking creatively about driver & rider safety. Thx to all the riders who made the call. We need a FEDERAL TRANSIT STIMULUS NOW to move us forward. www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/paac-moves-to-farelsss-transit-rear-door-boarding-amidst-covid...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Dan Yablonsky, Communications Director, Pittsburghers for Public Transit (551) 206-3320, dan@pittsburghforpublictransit.org Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PP...Don't let Covid-19 kill public transit 💀🚌
Sign-on now to call for a comprehensive federal transit stimulus to move our communities forward: ow.ly/qbo350yUNor
Transit Rider's Open Letter: Transit Still Moves Our City
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Public transit = healthcare, food access, jobs. COVID-19 must not threaten our system. We need transit stimulus to keep our communities moving.