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I know how important transportation programs like Encompass are. As a blind mom, I use a similar program in Colorado to get my daughter to places such as Scouts and other extracurricular activities.
Please keep this route! I recently started using this route and it has been a game changer in stress reduction from rush hour commute. Before I would have to wake up so early just to miss the traffic but now I can commute and reduce the traffic by participating in this option. I can take advantage of free time to catchup on reading, and know I’m contributing to less green house gases for the planet.
I take the bus everyday. .e my dad and my daughter. I'm in a wheelchair. I go to kennywood, carnegie science center, grocery shopping, restaurants. I go everywhere without busses id ve in the house all the time. If I need to go downtown to ssi or welfare or somewhere I'd never be able to go. My dad has to take a bus to the bank to put the money in I pay him back. I have never had my lucence ive used buses my whole life. My daughter had been on busses since she's been 2 days old. My dad can no longer drive.
I do not drive due to being on the Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as cars & gas being so expensive. Thousands of Pittsburghers, including the disabled, depend on riding the bus to survive. If PRT cuts bus services, jobs will be lost, businesses along the shuttered routes will lose money, and riders who depended on the buses will be left stranded.
Keep PRT services and Access transportation intact. The disabled especially and also many able people need these services to survive. I am blind, so I know firsthand. Thank you
Astoria residents are really at a disadvantage if we lose this lifeline into Manhattan. I use this bus on the many weekends - like the Memorial Day weekend coming up - when the N doesn’t go into the city. We’re getting short shrift here again.
Please join the effort to save our direct bus route to Manhattan! By signing the petition, we can ensure that seniors and disabled individuals continue to have easy access to the city, without being forced to take multiple buses.
The railroad is literally causing their own employee shortage. They are on call 24/7/365, they can be called at any time, their average work day: 12 hours of being responsible for a 3 mile long train that can contact hazardous materials, then left in a hotel away from home for 12 hours or more, then 12 hours on another train back home, to do it all again in 12 hours. They have 30 points and are fired if they run out of points and it costs 10 points to take a weekday off unpaid. They have to do this for 50 days straight without taking a day off to earn those 10 points back. Without the right to strike, this workload is taking it’s toll on their health and families. The railroad companies continue to take from these employees and give less and less for their mistreatment of them.
I am not sure that just the right to strike will even help them as I feel like they have been paying the unions to work for the company for at least the 20 years that I have been living with a railroad employee. I am a first hand witness, something urgently needs to change.
The railroad is such a difficult lifestyle and they continue to make it more and more difficult to lead a normal life. It takes a major toll on physical and mental health. Just imagine never knowing if you can make it to a bbq, a birthday, a dinner, never being able to book concert tickets, no quick weekend getaway’s. Those things don’t exist for railroaders. You never know when you will or won’t be home and you’re little surprise rest between a shift is what they call a “day off” it’s insane and bordering on slave labor.
I think getting rid of. Public transportation anywhere is ludicrous for it is so many's lifeline to life. So many people are cut off due to lack of transportation. You should be expanding bus lines not diminishing.