Transit for all Pa!
Campaign Updates
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.
Hundreds rally in Harrisburg to demand State Legislators deliver transit funding
Today, on the front steps of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, government leaders, business leaders, labor leaders and transit riders from big cities, small towns and rural areas rallied and called on the legislature to support adequate transportation funding. Time is running short.
State Budget Passes With $80 Million for Public Transportation
Transit riders and workers win the first funding increase in PA in over a decade. However, the one-time funding was far short of our goals and puts working people in danger. Transit for All PA! will continue advocacy through the summer to win transit improvements in all 67 PA counties. On Thursday, July 11th, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a one-time transfer of $80 million to the statewide Public Transit Trust Fund with the intention to revisit a sustainable, multi-year funding solution starting in the Fall. The additional $80 million dollars in operations funding is a band-aid that...
Take Action🚨 Don’t let transit riders and workers get kicked back in the state budget!
image description: photo of a person wearing a yellow shirt riding a bus, next to superimposed text that reads, "Tell PA Lawmakers: Support Public Transit. Paid for by Clean Air Action Fund. As constituents and taxpayers, we are demanding that our elected officials do their jobs and hold transit funding as an essential component of any deal that is negotiated this week! For the third year in a row, the ball might get dropped. June 30th was the deadline for budget passage in Harrisburg, and while negotiations have been extended through this week, there are rumors that public...