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image description: Advocates from PPT, Just Harvest, the Food Policy Council, and the Alliance for Police Accountability pose with County Executive Sara Innamorato, and staff from the Department of Human Services and Pittsburgh Regional Transit at the Allegheny Go program launch.
🎉🎉🎉 VICTORY: Transit Riders Win Permanent Discounted-Fare Program called "Allegheny Go"! The new program will enable half-price fares for 130,000 residents! Transit riders celebrate this announcement as a major step toward a fully zero-fare program.
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Whether you’re Black or white, whether you’re rich or poor, the price of transportation should never keep you from the food, healthcare, and the things your family needs to thrive. This belief has guided our organizing since February of 2020 when the Fair Fares Coalition first kicked off our campaign for more accessible transit fares at PRT [[link removed]] .
Advocates from Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Just Harvest, the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council, and the Alliance for Police Accountability celebrated because we stood alongside Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, and leadership from the Department of Human Services and Pittsburgh Regional Transit to launch the Allegheny Go program, a brand-new program to enable more than 130,000 of our neighbors to access transit for half fare.
The program will enable all residents who currently receive SNAP/EBT benefits and their entire household to access half-priced transit fair on all Pittsburgh Regional Transit buses and trains.
This is an incredible milestone in our campaign for more affordable fares. Since our campaign kicked off more than 4 years ago our advocacy has encouraged thousands of transit riders, hundreds of volunteers, dozens of elected officials, and dozens of organizations to uplift the call for more affordable fares. We would not be here today if it was not for their organizing. You can check out fairfaresnow.com [[link removed]] to learn more about the campaign’s history.
Learn more about the new income-based transit fare program, Allegheny Go, and get ready to sign up before June 3rd!
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image description: photo of PPT Organizer Josh Malloy speaking at kickoff of Fair Fares campaign in 2020.
You can help PPT organize to make the Allegheny Go income-based transit fare program a success by signing up for to spread the work during our June organizing push!
Come out and talk to riders in June with PPT! Want to ensure the success of this campaign and show Allegheny County that we are more than ready for fair fares? We need your help to spread the word about the new discounted fares program to riders and urge them to enroll. Sign-up to volunteer and we will contact you about training and upcoming tabling events!
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image description: PPT Members involved in the Beyond the East Busway campaign pose with fists raised and big smiles!
This victory would not have been possible without the dedicated advocacy from the many members of Pittsburghers for Public Transit.
PPT members spoke to countless riders at bus stops, on buses, at community meetings and public input sessions to build support for this campaign. Together, we've shifted the narrative about what accessible transit can do for our city. Beyond that, we've organized to ensure a champaion for public transit was elected to the County Executive seat and now we're passing policy that is helping tens of thousands of riders.
Become a Pittsburghers for Public Transit member today and build the momentumn for change!
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image description: photo of the inside of a PRT bus at night with blue lights. Overlaid on the image is PPT's logo and text that says Monthly Virtual Meeting.
Winning more affordable fares for SNAP/EBT households in Allegheny County was one of the top campaign goals that PPT Members approved in our 2024 Strategic Plan.
Join us for our June Meeting to evaluate the progress we've made on our 2024 Strategic Plan and build stategy for how we can win our other campaigns this year!
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Nominate
yourself
or
another
PPT
Member
to
run
in
the
2024
PPT
Board
Member
Elections!
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open
until
July
7
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learn
more
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nominate
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Final
PPT
Spring
Training
Planning
Committee
Meeting
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Wednesday,
May
22nd
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virtual
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RSVP
here
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Deadline
to
sign-up
to
Testify
with
fellow
transit
advocates
at
PRT's
May
Board
Meeting
//
Wednesday,
May
222
@
noon
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Help
make
the
new
income-based
transit
fare
program
a
success
with
PPT's
Organizing
Committee
//
committee
meeting
is
Wednesday,
June
29th,
6-7pm
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virtual
//
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Check-in
and
Strategize
on
PPT's
2024
Strategic
Plan
at
our
June
Meeting
//
June
12,
2024,
6:30
social
time,
7-8:30pm
meeting
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Virtual
//
RSVP
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DEADLINE:
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to
Southwestern
PA
Commission's
survey
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How
can
transit
be
better
in
Southwest
PA?
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June
1
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out
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