🏛️ 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.
Tomorrow, we will be out at SEPTA stations throughout the region to inform riders of the impending cuts and to help them reach out to their elected officials.
Find a canvassing location that works for you.
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🚨 ACTION ITEMS
🚏 Erie Ave Bus Lane Survey
SEPTA is studying two ideas for bus lanes on Erie Ave. Respond to their survey to give them your feedback.
🚫 Grays Ferry Is Not a Parking Lot
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is proposing a 1,000-vehicle parking garage at 30th and Grays Ferry Avenue. This garage would be over 70 feet tall, reserved for employees, and would require a separate shuttle service. Sign our petition telling CHOP: Don't Treat Grays Ferry as a Parking Lot
🛣️ Stop I-95 Expansion
PennDOT is planning to expand I-95 in Center City and South Philly by adding lanes and new ramps. This will threaten the well-being of our neighborhoods by worsening air quality, increasing noise pollution, harming our access to the waterfront, and destroying sports facilities. To make matters worse, PennDOT has been deceitful about its engagement efforts.
Join us in telling PennDOT that highway expansion has no place in the core of Philadelphia by signing our petition.
EVENTS
Equitable Transportation Fund: Congestion Pricing Webinar
July 9th at 4pm | Virtual
The Equitable Transportation Fund is hosting a webinar to connect advocates and funders for a discussion focused on congestion pricing with guests Ben Furnas of Transportation Alternatives and Nick Sifuentes of the Summit Foundation
WHAT WE'RE READING
🏙️ HOUSING & LAND USE
🌳 PUBLIC SPACE
🚌 TRANSIT
🚴 MOBILITY
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Stone Sherick Consulting Group / Affordable Housing Finance Director of Development
Housing Partnership Network / Director, Lending
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia / Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant
King of Prussia District / Public Landscapes Manager
Amtrak /
10,000 Friends of PA
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