About the Transit for All PA! Campaign & Coalition
Transit for all PA! is a statewide coalition of transit riders, transit workers, and transit-supportive organizations and businesses. Together, we are organizing to expand Pennsylvania’s public transit systems to grow our economy and connect more Pennsylvanians to jobs, healthcare, and essential needs.
After Pennsylvania’s last major dedicated transit funding bill (Act 89) expired in 2022, Transit for All PA! has been building a grassroots movement to win the policy soliutions that fund critical transportaiton in rural and urban communities across our state.
Our organizing began in early 2021, when Pittsburghers for Public Transit conviened a series of advoacy statewide calls with the Amalgamated Transit Union, Philly Transit Riders Union, Clean Air Council, and Transit Forward Philadelphia to sound the alarm about the expiration of dedicated transit funding in PA. These calls brought together hundreds of riders and workers from all across our state. Together, we built a policy platform that ut forward a series of values and legilative goals for the replacement of Act 89.
We are coninuing this work, and the need is larger than ever. Our state’s two largest transti agencies have announced major transit service cuts and fare increases that will impact urgan and rural communities alike. We know that smaller transit agencies will soon follow suit.
You can get involved to support Transit for All PA!
Platform Supporters
Elected Officials
State Senator Nikil Saval, SD 1
State Senator John Kane, SD 9
State Senator Tim Kearney, SD 26
State Senator Lindsey Williams, SD 38
State Senator Katie J. Muth, SD 44
State Representative Austin Davis, HD 35 (served 2018-2022, now serving Pennsylvania’s Lt. Governor)
State Representative Ben Sanchez, HD 153
State Representative Chris Rabb, HD 200
State Representative Dan Frankel, HD 23
State Representative Ed Gainey, HD 24 (served 2013-2021, now Mayor of City of Pittsburgh)
State Representative Elizabeth Fiedler, HD184
State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta, HD 181
State Representative Mary Isaacson, HD 175
State Representative Mike Sturla, HD 96
State Representative Jennifer O’Mara, HD 165
State Representative Joe Hohenstein, HD 177
State Representative Rick Krajewski, HD 188
State Representative Sara Innamorato, HD 21 (served 2019-2023, now Allegheny County Executive)
State Representative Summer Lee, HD 34 (served 2019-2022, now US Representative for PA-12)
Bethany Hallam, Allegheny County Council, At-large
Derek Green, Philadelphia City Council, At-large
Helen Gym, Philadephia City Council, At-large
Joi Washington, Media Borough Council
Katherine Gilmore Richardson, Philadelphia City Council, At-large
Ismail Smith-Wade-El, Lancaster City Council President
Matt Shorraw, Mayor, City of Monessen (served 2018-2022)
Labor Unions
AFL-CIO Pennsylvania
Amalgamated Transit Union International
Amalgamated Transit Union PA Joint Conference Board
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85 Pittsburgh
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 164 Wilkes-Barre
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 168 Scranton
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 568 Erie
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1241 Lancaster
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1279 Johnstown
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1345 Reading
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1436 Harrisburg
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1546
SEIU Healthcare PA
Teamsters Local 776
Community Organizations & Businesses
1Hood Power
5th Square
350 Philadelphia
ACCESS Mob
Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN)
Allegheny County Transit Council
Alliance for Police Accountability
Anyone Can Dance
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
BREATHE Project
BuxMont DSA
Casa San Jose
Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of Elders (CARIE)
CAT – Coalition for Appropriate Transportation, Lehigh Valley
Center for Coalfield Justice
City of Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Task Force on Disabilities
Clean Air Council
CREATE Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Dream Corps Green for All
Eastside Grassroots Coalition, Erie
Endless Mountains Extended Care, LLC.
Erie NAACP Unit 2262
fatfemmefly412
Green Party of Pennsylvania
Green Party of Allegheny County
Hill District Consensus Group
Jenkintown Environmental Advisory Committee
Just Harvest
Liberty Resources, Inc (Center for Independent Living – Philadelphia)
Mobilify Southwestern Pennsylvania
NeighborWorks Northeastern PA
New Voices for Reproductive Justice
North 5th Street Revitalization Project
Oakland for All
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation
One Pennsylvania
PA Budget and Policy Center
PA United
PennFuture
Penn Plaza Support & Action
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
Philly Transit Riders Union
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Pennsylvania
PIIN, Community of Reconciliation
Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi
Pittsburgh Black Worker Center
Pittsburgh Bus Information Hotline
Pittsburghers for Public Transit
POWER Interfaith
Progressive Montco
Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh (RP3)
Reclaim Philadelphia
Repair the World PGH / Serve the Moment
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Pennsylvania (ROC PA)
Scranton Area Community Foundation
Scranton Primary Health Care
SEAMAAC, Inc.
SEPTA Youth Advisory Council
Sierra Club of Pennsylvania
Sierra Club, Allegheny Group
Sunrise Movement Philadelphia
Sunrise Movement PA
Take Action Advocacy Group
The Thomas Merton Center
Transit Forward Philadelphia
Urban Erie Community Development Corporation
UrbanKind Institute
Wanner Associates
West Central Germantown Neighbors
West End P.O.W.E.R.
Working Families Party – PA