Transit for all Pa!
Campaign Updates
State Funding Forces Cuts, But Riders & Workers Take Action!
Pittsburgh announced massive cuts that would impact riders of all abilities, ages, and neighborhood. Small towns and cities across PA aren't far behind. TAKE ACTION to tell legislative leaders we need full funding for transit in every community in PA! Pittsburgh Regional Transit proposes 40% service cuts and 9% fare increases for fixed route service. Paratransit cuts of 62% and 20% fare increases. This is just the start for cuts across PA. Riders and supporters need to organize to save our service! Transit agencies across Pennsylvania are bleeding, and this week Pittsburgh Regional...
What’s Next: Winning Transit That Moves Us All
image description: Group of people of different backgrounds with sunglasses with arms raised and signs reading "Transit For All PA!" At center is a person in a power chair with a microphone. At right, a yellow block in the shape of Pennsylvania with a red cartoon bus and the blue text "Transit For All PA! and blue text below reading "We Can Win Transit That Moves Us All!" Thanks for joining us last Thursday to build a Platform for Visionary Transit! That call was just step one to winning funding by June 30. Over 175 riders, advocates, and operators from across Pennsylvania signed up...
RESPONSE: Riders and Workers Need a State Transit Budget That Moves Us
Whether you’re from State College or Scranton, Philly or Erie, every Pennsylvanian deserves transportation access to opportunity. On Feb 4th, National Transit Equity Day, Governor Shapiro didn’t deliver a public transit budget proposal that meets the needs of our Commonwealth. And so, we need you to join thousands of transit riders and workers across the state for two statewide calls to build the vision and organizing plan for the service we deserve! Last week, 80+ transit riders and transit workers across Pennsylvania joined Transit for All PA’s All Eyes on Governor Shapiro Budget Watch...
Welcome To Our Statewide Campaign Manager, Connor Descheemaker
PPT welcomes Connor Descheemaker to our team as the Statewide Campaign Manager for Transit For All PA. For over a decade, Pittsburgh for Public Transit has been a democratic member-led organization that fights for change in our community. We have won campaigns for improved bus service, fare accessibility, affordable housing, and transit equity. These successes are fueled by our local members and volunteers across Allegheny County. Over the last several years, recognizing the impact of state policy on the Pittsburgh area’s transit service, we began organizing at the state government. This...
Tell Gov Shapiro: TRANSIT M♥VES US!
We’re Ready for a Budget that Moves Us! On February 4th, Rosa Parks’ birth date, we’re calling on Governor Shapiro to lay out a funding plan for the transit we deserve. Thank you Governor Shapiro for hearing our call to flex funding and save SEPTA. Now it’s time for you to put transit first, and negotiate a dedicated, sustainable transit funding solution for all Pennsylvanians in 2025. Whether you're from State College or Scranton, Philly or Erie, every Pennsylvanian deserves transportation access to opportunity. Organize with us on Rosa Parks' birth date and Transit Equity Day to win...
Important Milestone: Governor Shapiro flexes $153 Million, Saving SEPTA from a Financial Doom Spiral
On November 22, 2024, Governor Shapiro flexed $150 million to save SEPTA riders & Pennsylvania's economy. Send a Thank-you to Governor Shapiro. Lend your support in reaching a full transit funding solution. In celebration, the Transit for All PA! Coalition issued the following statement: Today the Transit for All PA! statewide coalition celebrates an important step for transit, with Governor Shapiro’s announcement of an immediate allocation of $153 million from federal highway funds towards transit. The additional $153 million dollars in operations funding is long overdue and will...
TOOLKIT: Stop Transit Cuts & Fare Increases
Time is running out: SEPTA and transit systems across PA are facing major service cuts and fare increases imminently. We need all hands on-deck to ensure we don't lose our foundation, and can work to stabilize and grow our Commonwealth's public transportation - urban, suburban, rural, and intercity.
Governor Shapiro Must Act Now To Save Transit Riders and Our Economy
Tell Governor Shapiro to act now to “flex” highway dollars to stop transit service cuts and fare increases! The transit service that moves millions of Pennsylvanians is in crisis. Here's the rundown. Check out this memo on how the Governor can step in to save SEPTA and use Flex Funds to improve service across our state Whether we live in Philadelphia or Pottstown, Wilkes-Barre or Washington County, we all deserve an effective, affordable and safe means of transportation to access our jobs, our healthcare, our grocery stores and our schools. Over the past two years, residents across the...
We Need Our Leaders to Prioritize Transit
Opinion from Lionel Randolph: "We Need Our Leaders to Prioritize Transit" Lionel Randolph is a transit operator, the President of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1436 in Harrisburg and the Legislative Director for the Amalgamated Transit Union's Pennsylvania Joint Conference Board Transit is essential for our community. Transit is a way to connect people to people. People to businesses and people to their community. It is a driver of economic growth and opportunities. I know this first hand as the union president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1436 representing CAT...
State Funding Update – Legislators Must Act
Public transit funding in southeastern PA and across the state remains in crisis, but now's the time to double down in pushing state government to #FundPATransit.