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Anne Hodapp’s Story
Anne Hodapp is a single mother who lives in Pitcairn, a small borough just a few miles south of Monroeville. Her 10-year-old daughter has several disabilities and has seizures, but ACCESS has said she is not disabled enough to qualify for their door-to-door transport service for seniors and the disabled. The Port Authority has announced […]
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. […]
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Dozens of residents call on Pittsburgh City Council to end the Spin E-Scooter pilot, and to improve resident mobility through sidewalk development, bus improvements and affordable housing instead. On ...
Public Hearing on SPIN Scooters & Mobility Needs - Pittsburghers for Public Transit
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image description: graphic that has text that reads "City of Pittsburgh Public Hearing on SPIN Scooters & Mobility Needs", overlaid on a photo of a SPIN scooter laying across a sidewalk. The City of P...
Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
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Almost 90% of votes cast favour banning the scooters in a city that pioneered them.