Transit for all Pa!
Campaign Updates
2026 Transit for All Organizing Spring Training
Image description: Black text highlighted in yellow reads "Transit for All Organizing Spring Training 2026", interspersed with blue-filtered images of transit advocates at rallies, holding signs, and boarding the bus. Smaller text below reads "March 20-21, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA", with the Pittsburghers for Public Transit and Transit for All PA logos. You're invited: Join transit riders, workers, and supporters from across PA and the country for the 2026 Transit for All Organizing Spring Training! Transit can transform our communities - but it is up to us as organizers to build the...
LANTA Service Cuts & Fare Hikes – Riders & Workers Call for State Action
Image description: Color graphic with three colored stripes in the center. A red sunburst next to the words "Action Alert! Lehigh Valley Service Cuts + fare increases with an image of a LANTA bus with people boarding using mobility aids Elected Officials failed to pass an expanded & Dedicated FUnding source last year. As a result, Lanta must implement service cuts & fare hikes At the end of January. Public Comments are Open now, and the agency hosts a fare hearing on Wednesday, January 14. While it’s not the 20% (or more) service cuts originally threatened yet, this continued loss...
Lets recap a year of huge growth for Transit Organizing in PA
2025 was an unprecedented year for transit riders' & workers' organizing. People in every single State House District in PA wrote their elected Officials demanding improved public transit access for their community. The fight for transit in PA is not over, and this movement is ready to grow. See the slide deck with more about Transit for All PA's 2025 victories In the last 12 months, you organized in a big way. Back in January, Transit For All PA welcomed its first full-time staffperson and we hit the ground running with a push on Governor Shapiro to make transit the central issue of...
Riders & Workers Rally For Investment & Growth in Lancaster Transit
Image description: Color image of a multiracial, multi-age group of transit advocates holding signs that read "Transit Moves Us" and "Transit For All PA" behind a person at a podium speaking with their hands out On Tuesday, December 9, transit riders, workers, and advocates gathered in the cold at Queen St Station in Lancaster to turn up the temperature on transit funding for Red Rose Transit. Two-dozen people joined Rep. Nikki Rivera (PA-96) and the team of Rep. Ismail Smith-Wade-El (PA-49) to illustrate the threat facing riders and workers in Lancaster, and how it connects to our...
Donate To Help Build New Constellations of Power
With Transit for All PA!, Transit riders, workers, and supporters are building new constellations of power. Together, we've met the biggest threats to transit by building the biggest Movement the state has ever seen. Your support TODAY can help this movement grow and Win. Donate There's no denying it, Pennsylvania's transit riders, workers and supporters have built an unprecedented movement this year, uplifting a transformational demand: that everyone deserves access to high-quality transportation. Never before have PA's politicians heard such a unified voice speaking up for better public...
Gov Shapiro Takes Emergency Action, Riders and Workers Underscore Need for Statewide Dedicated Revenue
Governor Josh Shapiro again took executive action to preserve the status quo for SEPTA. His action requests $220 million in “emergency-” designated funds from the Public Transportation Trust Fund to address the federal government’s recent order to immediately preserve the safety and accessibility of Pennsylvania’s largest transit system. However, this action does not solve Pennsylvania’s public transit crisis. Our state elected officials still must pass sustainable transit funding. After transit funding was “taken off the table” in this year’s state budget negotiations, the Transit...
Transit for All PA! Statement on the Passage of the 2025-26 State Budget
image description: Transit for Al PA! supporters hold signs and smile at a statewide rally Media Contact: Connor Descheemaker, Coalition Manager for Transit for All PA!connor@transitforallpa.org Transit for All PA Coalition Denounces State Budget that Fails to Address Mobility Needs for Pennsylvania Residents Click here to hold our elected officials accountable Today transit riders, workers and advocates denounce the legislature’s abject failure to raise new revenue and pass a budget to meet the mobility needs of communities across all 67 counties in the Commonwealth. No budget is...
We Must Build Rural/Urban Unity To win Transit for All
image description: cover photo of th enew Rural Urban Unity Project release with Transit for All PA has group of advocates holding pro-transit signs. Text next to the photo says "new playbook released". When we unify communities for real benefits, we win. Read our new Release with Narrative initiative! Read the Transit for All PA! Rural Urban unity Project Release We know that Transit (just like housing, healthcare, and food access) is an issue that impacts both rural and urban communities - whether it's a van ride for a senior in Venango County or a subway ride for a dad in Philly. We...
Stay Focused, Stay United: The Transit Budget Fight is Not Done Until It’s Done
Yesterday, Governor Shapiro approved SEPTA’s request to raid its critical capital funds- which pays for repairs, safety and accessibility improvements- to temporarily stop its service cuts. Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) is likely going to propose the same deeply flawed, stop-gap measure of spending down its capital funds to avoid cutting service in 2026. Let’s be clear: this administrative gambit is NOT a transit funding solution. Take Action Now This budget fight is not over It’s embarrassing that our legislature and our Governor have yet to pass new transit funding, and...
Catastrophic Transit Cuts to SEPTA and PRT Averted for Now, But This Is Not a Solution
This story is unfolding hour by hour. More updates will be added. On Friday, September 5, it was announced that Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and SEPTA - our two largest transit systems - will request to use transit capital dollars from the Public Transportation Trust Fund to pay for operations and pause their proposed major service cuts. It is an embarrassment that our transit agencies feel the only solution to our service crisis is to cannibalize their needed capital funds that keep our buses and trains safe, maintained and accessible. Over the last two months, our legislators have...