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This Transit Worker Appreciation Day, March 18th, help workers, riders, and our system by calling for better schedules.
Bad schedules are bad news for both workers and riders using our transit system. If you’ve been riding the routes the last few years you’ve probably seen some schedules that have made you scratch your head. For this year’s Transit Worker Appreciation Day, we’re uplifting the call from workers and riders to fix the schedules so that we can all have better days. Help us in the effort by signing up to canvass riders and workers on March 18th to collect stories about how schedules have impacted their lives and how they can be improved for us all.
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Image Description: A Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress) |
Bad schedules steal our time. RSVP Join PPT at tonight's meeting to talk about all things scheduling. We'll cover how scheduling works, how it impacts our service, and how it can be improved.
Better schedules is a main demand for Transit Worker Appreciation Day on March 18th. |
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Save the date: We're holding a day-long PPT Organizer/Activist Spring Training Day! Fill out the survey to help us design our day of programming
PPT is going to kick off another season of transit rider organizing with a day-long PPT Organizer/Activist Spring Training Day on May 4th. The day will contain trainings, panels and workshops on all things transit advocacy. And we'll wrap up with a springtime PPT BBQ.
Help us build out our programming for the day by filling out this survey today: |
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Image Description: screenshot from City-Cast's website with PPT interview on Ghost Busses |
New PPT Interview in CityCast Pittsburgh: "Why Pittsburgh Has a Ghost Bus Problem".
Check out the new story from CityCast on PRT's problem with ghost buses. Reporter Megan Harris speaks with PPT Executive Director Laura Chu Wiens about how this impacts riders and operators and about what the organization is doing to fix it. |
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Image Description: screenshot of the top of PRT's Flyer for Community Meeting about the Red Line closing in June |
News from PRT: Community Meeting to be held about an upcoming construction project will close a portion of the light-rail system in June. |
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Image Description: Daeja with curly yellow hair, glasses, facial piercings and earrings, wearing a light yellow dress, standing in front of blurred out buildings and grass |
Meet Daeja, PPT's newest staff member and our first-ever Digital Organizer!
We’ve hired a digital organizer! PPT is growing its organizational capacity bringing its staff from four to five. Daeja has organized in Pittsburgh for 15 years and founded Pittsburgh Feminists for Intersectionality in 2017, a base that she has used to organize across several issues— racial justice, disability justice, justice for those in the carceral system and housing justice, all through the lens of intersectionality. |
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Image Description: Yourtube title screen of PPT's legislative roundtable recap video |
PPT roundtable on February 20th highlights how legislators at all levels of government can expand funding to improve & expand our buses, trains, and access to opportunity
What do we want? A visionary baseline transit service for Allegheny County residents: 1. Service Coverage
All residents should have access to transit within walking distance of their home. 2. High Frequency
Buses and trains should come at a minimum of every 30 minutes, and higher ridership routes should come a minimum of every 15 minutes. 3. Available at all hours, to service many kinds of jobs and needs Transit should run at least from 4:30 am-1:30 am for all rapid, local, and coverage routes, with 24 hour service for high activity locations. 7 day/week service should continue to be available on all routes.
How can we pay for it? Through Elected Officials at all levels of government taking action: Local
City and County officials could advocate for such a program to be implemented at PRT, purchase passes for City and County staff, and then pass Transportation Demand Management (TDM) policies to encourage employers to participate. State
Elected leaders in the House and Senate can support Gov. Shapiro's budget proposal to reapportion the State's sales tax to fund that would provide PRT with $40M annually for more reliable and expanded service. Federal
Support the "Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act" from Rep. Hank Johnson (and Senator Ossof's companion legislation in the Senate) that would could increase transit service in Allegheny County up to 37%. |
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Bad Schedules Steal Our Time! PPT Monthly Meeting on Transit Scheduling and Transit Worker Appreciation Day // Wednesday, March 13, 6:30 social time, 7-8:30 meeting // virtual // RSVP here
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Red Line Rider canvass with PPT & Casa San Jose // Thursday, March 14th, 3:30-5:30 // Meet at Casa San Jose office, 2116 Broadway Avenue, 15216 // Email PPT Organizer Nicole to RSVP: [email protected]
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Transit Worker Appreciation Day Canvasses! // Monday, March 18th // in-person
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PPT Planning Committee Meeting Organizer Launch Party-Training // March 20th, 6-7pm // virtual // RSVP here
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PRT Red Line Closure Community Meeting // March 21st, 6:30 - 7:30 // in-person, location TBD // PRT flyer in English, PRT flyer in Spanish
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Speak at the PRT Board Meeting with fellow transit advocates // March 22nd, 9:30-10:30am // virtual or in-person at 345 Sixth Ave // RSVP here
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