PPT to release ambitious, but achievable, 100 days platform Image Description: Red text on a yellow background reads, “Pittsburgh 100 Days Transit Platform: Affording All Residents the Freedom to Move”. Under the text is PPT’s logo. On the right side of the photo is a red Port Authority bus, with three riders canvassing at a bus stop with a sign that says “Ready to Ride!”. Help us launch the roadmap to better transit and affordable housing for Mayor-Elect Ed Gainey's first 100 days in office The Pittsburgh 100 Days Transit platform was developed through conversations with dozen of advocates and organizers from across the city working on housing, disability, environmental, and economic justice issues. The platform includes 18 targeted interventions for how Mayor-elect Gainey can use his power to improve transit and affordable housing throughout our city. These achievable platform plans offer legislative, zoning, infrastructure and staffing changes to afford all Pgh residents the freedom to move! Help us release the Pittsburgh 100 Days Transit Platform this Thursday, 12/16, 11am at Fifth & Atwood RSVP to join us at Fifth & Atwood See the video summary, platform supporters, and sign on in support image description: photo of PPT Member Alisa Grishman speaking at the Tranit for All PA! rally in Harrisburg. Layered overtop the photo is a quote from her that says, "We have to care for our neighbors and be the shelter. We have to fight for them and be the storm." Be the shelter and the storm! Donate to PPT and help our year-end fundraising campaign towards success! Donate to be the shelter and the storm image description:Image description: PPT’s Year-End Campaign artwork designed by Pedro Ibarra. Three people gather under a bus shelter, two are standing, one is in a wheelchair. All are smiling and holding signs for transit justice. There are rain clouds and lightning outside the shelter with text that reads “we are the shelter we are the storm” TOMORROW! Come celebrate a year of successful organizing at year-end party! Awards, games, music and more! This year was hard – the crushing effects of the pandemic, a transit death spiral, a transit funding cliff. Jobs and housing lost. PPT members had to organize together to provide shelter for our neighbors and communities. But we didn’t stop there. Our organizing was a FORCE. We launched a statewide campaign for expanded transit funding. We built a base to put a pro-public transit mayor in office. We laid the groundwork for a low-income fare program. We continued our push to extend the East Busway and we WON MILLIONS of federal dollars that can make it all real! RSVP image description: picture of PPT board chair Verna Johnson in a yellow square, overlaid over a picture of a red and yellow buses moving down a street in traffic. "Build Back Better for Local Transit", Post-Gazette Publishes PPT Board Chair's, Ms. Verna Johnson's, Letter to the Editor "We at Pittsburghers for Public Transit have been calling on Washington to help our public transit systems. With the House’s passage of the Build Back Better Act, we’re one step closer. The Build Back Better Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act represent historic investments in our nation’s public transit systems that will ensure that Allegheny County’s public transit not only survives the COVID pandemic, but actually builds back better. The investments in these bills will help ensure our buses and trains run frequently and on time so that people can get to the jobs, classrooms, shops, family members, and doctors they need to. They will open up opportunities for more good-paying jobs, and make the Pittsburgh region safer, more environmentally sustainable, and racially just. And while the funding is historic, it’s not a guarantee that it won’t be spent on projects that continue to divide our communities and pollute our air. We will hold our leaders accountable to make sure that our money is being invested in projects that align with the Administration’s commitment to racial justice and reducing carbon emissions. Now it’s up to the Senate to join their colleagues across the Capitol and pass the Build Back Better Act without delay." Read Ms. Verna's LTE 🖱️ ✊ Click-tivist Corner🖱️ ✊️️️ Push for change from behind your keyboard and join us in the streets. Sign-on to support Pittsburgh 100 Days Transit Platform for the new mayor Image description: a photo of three people sitting down and smiling, one holds. a sign that reads "ready to ride", a bus is driving by in the background. Take this survey & ask the city to use money from the Mon Oakland Connector to build sidewalks along Second Ave. Image description: a mural with colorful flowers at the bottom, and arrows that read Greenfield, the Run, Hazelwood, text on top says "Our Money. Our Solutions." Be the shelter and the storm! Donate to PPT's year-end fundraising campaign. Image description: PPT’s Year-End Campaign artwork designed by Pedro Ibarra. Three people gather under a bus shelter while it rains and thunders outside, two are standing, one is in a wheelchair. All are smiling and holding signs for transit justice. Sign-up to help PPT connect with supporters during our year-end online phonebank Image description: pre-pandemic photo of PPT members smiling and posing together at an in-person phonebank (this year's phonebanks will be online) Image description: profile shot of red articulated Port Authority bus traveling down a busway. Text above reads "Events" PPT Organizing Meetings 🔥Shelter & The Storm! PPT's Year-End Celebration // Wednesday, 12/15 // 7-8:30pm Celebration (online) // RSVP here 🔥Press Conference to Launch the 100 Days Transit Platform // Thursday, 12/16, 11-11:45am // in-person at the Fifth & Atwood Bus Station // streaming online via PPT's FB page // RSVP here // Sign on to support the platform PPT Year-end Phonebank // Thursday, 12/16, 5-8pm (online) // RSVP here PPT Year-end Phonebank // Monday, 12/20, 3-5pm (online) // RSVP here PPT Year-end Phonebank // Thursday, 12/28, 5-7pm (online) // RSVP here 🔥DEADLINE to donate to PPT's Year End Fundraising Campaign // Friday, 12/31 // DONATE HERE ‌ ‌ Pittsburghers for Public Transit | 5119 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!