Weekly Newsletter, Issue 338   🏛️ DC 33 STRIKE   📋 TOMORROW: CANVASS SEPTA RIDERS Let's keep up the pressure on Harrisburg to fund transit! Tell everyone you know to contact their elected officials and demand funding for SEPTA.   Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 337   🌫️ STOP GRAYS FERRY POLLUTION We knew CHOP's proposed parking garage was bad for Grays Ferry. But we didn't know exactly how bad, or why CHOP assured everyone it wouldn't worsen traffic. Continue reading

In this letter to the City of Philadelphia's Civic Design Review and Streets Department, learn why CHOP's proposed 1000-space employee-only parking garage at 30th and Grays Ferry will worsen traffic, increase pollution, and put Grays Ferry residents in danger. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 336   🚋 SEPTA UPDATES We are now only two months away from the first of SEPTA's planned cuts this summer. Fortunately, a transit funding bill passed the PA House last week. While historically the PA Senate has been the bottleneck for transit legislation, this is an encouraging step in the right direction. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 335   🎉 UPDATE ON CITY HALL BIKE LANE Last week, we joined with Philly Bike Action for a late-breaking action asking for a bike lane around City Hall and we have an exciting update! This past Thursday, Councilmember Young introduced the bill authorizing the bike lane which allows PennDOT to install it when repaving over the summer. Continue reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 12, 2025 Philadelphia's nationally-acclaimed low-income fare program left unfunded in a last-minute betrayal. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 334   🏛️ DEMAND A BIKE LANE AROUND CITY HALL We urgently need your help to get a bike lane around City Hall. As PennDOT prepares to repave Penn Square this summer, we have an opportunity to make it safer and add a bike lane. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 333   🍻 MEETUP ON THURSDAY Join us this Thursday, June 5th for our first meetup in Roxborough! Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 332   🏘️ MORE HOUSING, LESS PARKING Parking mandates make housing more expensive and entrench car dependency by forcing businesses and housing developments to build parking spaces regardless of parking demand or proximity to transit. Fortunately, there's a very simple solution: get rid of parking mandates altogether! Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 331   🗳️ VOTE TODAY Today is election day! Polls are open until 8 P.M. Our Steering Committee recommends voting YES on Question 2. Check out our election center for more info. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 330   🚍 SAVE SEPTA RALLY ON MONDAY If we don't act now to address SEPTA's funding crisis, SEPTA is planning to slash service by 45%, hike fares, and eliminate 50 bus routes and 5 regional rail lines. We need your help to stop this! Continue reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 329   🚇 MORE WAYS TO SAVE SEPTA If we don't act now to address SEPTA's funding crisis, SEPTA is planning to slash service by 45%, hike fares, and eliminate 50 bus routes and 5 regional rail lines. We need your help to stop this! Continue reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Thursday May 1, 2025 PHILADELPHIA -  Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 328   🚨 STOP SEPTA CUTS Due to a funding crisis, SEPTA is planning to slash service by 45%, hike fares, and eliminate 50 bus routes and 5 regional rail lines. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 327   🚨 STOP SEPTA CUTS Due to a funding crisis, SEPTA is planning to slash service by 45%, hike fares, and eliminate 50 bus routes and 5 regional rail lines. Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 326   🚨 45% SEPTA CUTS ANNOUNCED This past week, SEPTA announced it will need to make massive cuts due to its funding shortfall. Continue reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Thursday, April 10th, 2025 Continue reading

  5th Square is providing the following press release in reaction to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)'s announcement of service reductions and fare increases due to lack of state financial support.     Continue reading

Weekly Newsletter, Issue 325   🙅 STOP SEPTA CUTS SEPTA cuts due to state funding shortfalls will be announced on Thursday, so we need you to join us for a rally at City Hall on Friday to show that we're not going to let these cuts happen. Continue reading