Transit for all Pa!

Transit for All PA is a statewide movement shaped by transit riders and transit workers. If you ride or work on Red Rose or LANTA in Lancaster and the Lehigh Valley, you can shape the future of transit organizing in your community by filling out  rider/worker surveys!  You are the expert on transit service in your community. Let’s identify the issues that matter most to riders and workers in Lancaster and the Lehigh Valley, and use that information to organize.  By sharing your experience, you can show the state government that there is real demand for expanded, affordable,...

The shared-ride and paratransit system in PA is broken. Paratransit is the service that seniors and people with disabilities use to take shared van rides where they need to go, since larger fixed-route buses are often inaccessible. Paratransit (or shared-ride) service is legally required by the Americans with Disabilities Act wherever fixed-route service exists, and operates in all 67 counties of Pennsylvania. Here's the problem: nearly every transit agency in PA is robbing its fixed-route budgets to keep shared-ride and paratransit service running—putting fixed-route service at risk in...

One year after hiring our first statewide organizer, Transit For All PA is growing its footprint! Joining the team for the first time at our Organizing Spring Training, we're deepening our statewide relationships through three regional organizing fellows in Lancaster and the Lehigh Valley. Read below to learn a bit about the people surveying transit riders and workers, and building the movement for transit in the Lehigh Valley. Megan Lysowski (She/her) Why I love the Lehigh Valley: I love living in proximity to the mountain and the city.  Bio: I hail from the car-dependent suburbs of...

One year after hiring our first statewide organizer, Transit For All PA is growing its footprint! Joining the team for the first time at our Organizing Spring Training, we're deepening our statewide relationships through three regional organizing fellows in Lancaster and the Lehigh Valley. Read below to learn a bit about the people surveying transit riders and workers, and building the movement for transit in Lancaster. Laura Pauls-Thomas (they/she) Why I love Lancaster: I love living in Lancaster because people here are genuine, welcoming, and willing to step up to create the positive...

Image Description: Group photo at spring training has 100 people holding up signs and smiling with fists up. Transit for All means every community - urban and rural, large and small - and thats who the movement is fighting for! 150 transit riders and transit workers from across Pennsylvania and the United States gathered at the end of March to build organizing skill and strengthen community. The movement keeps on growing! For two days at the end of March, 150 transit riders and transit workers gathered in Pittsburgh for the third-annual Transit for All Organizing Spring Training....

Transit riders across PA are telling their stories & Calling for expanded transit funding To tell your story, email info@transitforallpa.org today! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3URwoX8g3w31us4zOp3_sDj7FdbbSe1w&si=wsFDRjs2CLR1RQmE Kearasten in Lancaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3irQmkNyI&list=PL3URwoX8g3w31us4zOp3_sDj7FdbbSe1w&index=3 Julianna in Allentown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvNnOSq-MU&list=PL3URwoX8g3w31us4zOp3_sDj7FdbbSe1w&index=3 Bob in Harrisburg...

The Crisis Is Here: Gov. Shapiro’s FY26-27 Budget Address Acknowledges Transit’s “Unfinished Business,” But Does Not Meet the Moment for PA Riders, Workers, And COmmunities. TAKE ACTION: Tell Gov. Shapiro Transit Our Communities Deserve More Transit For All PA! applauds Governor Josh Shapiro’s repeated executive actions to stave off total collapse of Pennsylvania’s transit systems. He has continued to stand up for transit in its bleakest moments.  But Governor Shapiro’s proposed solutions do not meet the moment for transit riders and workers, especially those outside of the...

Image Description: Black and yellow text reads "ICE OUT" on a pixelated gray and black gradient background. Organizing around transit justice is about ensuring that all people have the freedom to move—to travel safely and with dignity everywhere we need to go. All communities should have the ability to freely access their places of school and work, grocery stores, healthcare, and places of recreation and play.  ICE as an institution is structurally in opposition to that freedom of movement. It is a state instrument of violence, of repression and fear, of incarceration and isolation....