Newsletter: 🚨 Stop SEPTA Cuts / ✍️ DVRPC Vision Zero Survey / 🚫 Grays Ferry Is Not a Parking Lot
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.
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Newsletter: 🚨 Stop SEPTA Cuts / 🗳️ Get Ready for the Primary Election / 📅 Save the Date for Our May Meetup
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.
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Newsletter: 🚨 45% SEPTA Cuts Announced / 🥳 Zero Fare Program Is Saved / 🚲 We Were Right About Washington Ave
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.
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5th Square Applauds Safe Healthy Homes Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 10th, 2025
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Reaction to SEPTA Budget Cuts
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.
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Newsletter: 🙅 Stop SEPTA Cuts / 🏛️ Have a Say on Our Budget / 🏫 School Zone Speed Cameras Moving Forward
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.
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Reaction to Proposed Transit Access Fund
5th Square is providing the following press release in reaction to Council Member Nicolas O'Rouke's proposal for the creation of a Philadelphia Transit Access Fund
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April Fools!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 323½ // April 1, 2025
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Response to the Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission Report
Read our response to the Parker Administration's Tax Reform Commission and recommendations for the FY26 budget.
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Reaction to Mayor Parker’s Housing Opportunities Made Easy (H.O.M.E) Address
5th Square is providing the following press release in reaction to Mayor Parker’s Housing Opportunities Made Easy (H.O.M.E) Address
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 24th, 2025
PHILADELPHIA —
“Mayor Parker today released an admirable goal to build, preserve and restore 30,000 homes in Philadelphia. Of these numbers, she listed a goal: the production of 13,500 new homes and the preservation of 16,500 existing homes.”, says Brennan Maragh, co-chair of 5th Square’s Housing Committee.
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