by Dan Yablonsky | Apr 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Paul McLennan- Labor NotesMore than 100 transit activists met in Washington, D.C. in mid-March for the Amalgamated Transit Union’s “boot camp,” learning how to build coalitions between transit workers and transit riders.Responding to the near-universal threat of...
by Dan Yablonsky | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dear Supporter, Thank you for visiting Pittsburghers for Public Transit’s site! We’re excited that you want to join us in the fight to protect and expand Pittsburgh’s public transit system. Here’s how you can help! ...
by Dan Yablonsky | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
To All Activists:On Wednesday 3/30/2011 (tomorrow) Jim Burn President of Allegheny County Council will be holding a special session of Council at 5:00 pm. We need everyone who can make it in such short notice to come to Grant street in front of the County Courthouse...
by Dan Yablonsky | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Jonah McAllister-EricksonThe Amalgamated Transit Union is a crucial part of the solution Pittsburgh transportation crisis. It is because of the ATU — not in spite of it — that Pittsburgh has a safe and reliable mass transit system. It is because of the...
by Dan Yablonsky | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Alicia Wlliamsonphoto by Dawn Jackman-BieryPort Authority Transit’s budget comes from a variety of sources at the city, county, state, and federal levels and its levels of funding is inconsistent. PAT has direct control over some financial cost variables like...
by Dan Yablonsky | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Alicia Williamsonphoto by Dawn Jackman-BieryPittsburgh is trying to establish itself as a “green city,” leading the way in innovative environmentally-friendly jobs, technologies, and policies. Cuts to public transit would be a major step in the wrong...
