🔔🥳 Ding-dong! The Mon Oakland Connector is really dead. Join us now and sign our thank-you card to Mayor Ed Gainey.Â
For over six long years, residents of Hazelwood, Four Mile Run, and the surrounding neighborhoods have organized to say that public investment needs to meet public needs.
All of their efforts finally paid off on February 17th. In front of a packed community meeting filled with 100+ residents of Hazelwood and Greenfield, Mayor Ed Gainey announced: “The Mon-Oakland Connector shuttle project will not move forward.” Â
Join us now in saying thanks to Mayor Ed Gainey for his leadership.
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image description: text reads “Thank you, Mayor Gainey! Its time for Our Money, Our Solutions, not the Mon Oakland Connector.” overlaid on a photo of a mural between Four Mile Run, Hazelwood, and Greenfield. |
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Scooters & private "micro-mobility" companies don't provide the "universal basic mobility" that they claim to. PPT's new report & webinar take a deeper look at who's left out of city's new program.
The "Mobility for Who?" panelists presented on the new report’s findings that examine the previous Mayoral Administration’s decision to pour taxpayer funds and staff time into private mobility technology while failing to prioritize core infrastructure needs such as sidewalks, bus shelters, and even roads and bridges.Â
Mayor Gainey's administration is an opportunity for change.
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image description: screenshot of Figure 4 from PPT's Mobility for Who? report: A map of Pittsburgh showing Move PGH Mobility Hubs (Spin scooter locations), Healthy Ride stations and Zipcar locations, juxtaposed by the PAAC Equity Index. Very high need is indicated by light yellow, high need indicated by orange, moderate need by purple, and low need by black. A high concentration of Move PGH options are concentrated in low need areas, ignoring areas such as the Hill District and Hazelwood.Â
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image description: photo from the Drop Colcom campaign's press conference. Guillermo Perez, president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement speaks, wearing a t-shirt that reads "PA <3 Immigrants". Other activists stand in the background holding signs that read "Drop Colcom" and "Hate should have no place"
The Drop Colcom campaign relaunches! Sign on your organization now to demand the PGH-based Colcom Foundation stop funding anti-immigrant white nationalism
Activists are inviting community groups to sign an open letter urging the Pittsburgh-based Colcom Foundation to stop funding its network of extremist anti-immigrant, white nationalist political groups. The letter is an effort of the Drop Colcom Campaign, which has three goals:
- Raising public awareness of the Colcom Foundation’s funding of anti-immigrant, white nationalist groups
- Encouraging organizations, elected officials, and activists to pressure Colcom to stop supporting its powerful anti-immigrant network
- Demanding Colcom redirect 100% of its funding to civic and conservation projectsÂ
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Image description: collage of three photos, left is a photo of the bus being lifted by a crane from the collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge. Upper right is a map from WESA that shows the detour for the 61B outbound (Forbes > S. Dallas > Penn > Peebles > Savannah > W. Hutchinson > S. Braddock). Lower right is a photo of red bus lanes on a city street.
TOMORROW @ 1pm! Join PPT to help continue our campaign to ensure the new Fern Hollow Bridge better serves people on transit, walking and biking.
Join PPT members for our working group tomorrow to further develop our position on key needs and demands around the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse, how riders can move quickly and safely through the detours, and how the bridge can be rebuilt with transit riders at the forefront of planning decisions.
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image description: Photo of the front of a red Port Authority bus. Superimposed on the windshield of the bus is the PPT logo and text that reads "General Meeting".
Get involved in the fight for transit justice.
PPT's March Monthly Meeting is this Wednesday, 3/9. 6:30 social time. 7-8:30 meeting.
All are welcome to join us for our Monthly General Meeting. We'll be holding it over Zoom, so attendees can join via computer or phone.
Closed captions in English and live translation in Spanish will be available.Â
On the agenda:
- Mon Oakland Connector Victory Party Planning
- Recap Mobility for Who? Report & 100 Days Transit Platform Update
- PPT Committee Update
- (more items TBD)
Give us a ring if you have any questions about how to use Zoom, or if you have any accessibility needs: 412-626-7353
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image description: photo of Mayor Ed Gainey with a Bus Stop sign in the background.
LAST CHANCE TO INFORM MAYOR GAINEY'S TRANSITION TEAM SURVEYS! Help him prioritize equitable transit access and affordable housing as he enters office.
Mayor Gainey's transition team is wrapping up its community outreach. Over the last two months, they have received hundreds of comments about important issues during 6 community meetings and a community survey.
There is still one final opportunity to make your voice heard on transit justice and affordable housing for the transition committees! Use this page to post your ideas about what issues this administration should prioritize - and upvote ideas that have been posted that you agree with.
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🖱️ ✊ Click-tivist Corner🖱️ ✊️️️
Push for change from behind your keyboard and join us in the streets.
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Image description: photo with Mayor Gainey in the forground and a bus stop sign in the background |
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Image description: profile shot of red articulated Port Authority bus traveling down a busway. Text above reads "Events"
PPT Organizing Meetings
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PPT 100 Days Transit working group plans next steps for Fern Hollow Bridge Replacement (online) // Tuesday, March 8th, 1-2:30pm // RSVP here
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PPT Organizing Committee Meeting (on zoom) // Friday, March 18th, 12-1pm // email Cheryl to be added to the calendar invite.
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PPT Accessibility Committee (on zoom) // March 24th at 5:15 // Email Toni with accessibility requests and to get the calendar invite
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Communications Committee (on Google Meet) // Tuesday, April 5th, 7-8pm // RSVP here
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Transit for All PA! campaign meeting (on zoom) // every Thursday, 2-3 pm // Click here to join, or email Laura to be added to the calendar invite
Other Community Events
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Stay Tuned! Transit Worker Appreciation Day // March 18, 2022
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