Join us for a virtual phonebank to call advocates from across PA to contact Gov. Shapiro to flex funding & fund transit for all PA!
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This will be a virtual phonebank for our volunteers to call fellow PA transit supporters. We are encouraging those supporters to contact Gov. Shapiro with the demand taht he flex funding to fund transit in PA. In the immediate, this flex funding will save SEPTA, and in the long-term flex funding can be part of a strategy that funds transit for everyone in PA!
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Governor Shapiro has the unilateral power to prevent SEPTA from making serious cuts to transit service. He can direct PennDOT to allocate funding from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and “flex” it to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to fund transit. This happened in 2005 under Governor Ed Rendell under similar circumstances, to avert a transit crisis. Rendell threatened to do it again in 2010, which was a tactic that successfully compelled the legislature to negotiate a ten-year dedicated transit funding bill, Act 89. Governor Shapiro has a clear template for how to shift the funding needed to ensure that deep service cuts and fare increases don’t affect nearly a million transit riders in the Philadelphia area beginning January 1st. He needs to act now!
