Get ready for the 2025 National Transit Advocacy Spring Training! Riders, workers, and transit supporters from across the country will meet in Pittsburgh, PA on April 25th & 26th and YOU are invited!

Transit can transform our communities, but it is up to us as organizers to build the grassroots movement and make it happen!

This April, you are invited to join Pittsburghers for Public Transit and advocates from all over to the National Transit Advocacy Spring Training. PPT will have workshops on telling a compelling transit story to elected leaders and using it to win your demands; transit worker organizing and building common cause with riders; taking transit service demands into a state funding fight; galvanizing municipal elected officials to support transit riders with land use and infrastructure demands… and more! We will have workshops led by local advocates and advocates outside of Pittsburgh and topics relevant to transit organizers at all levels and regions.

Friday, April 25th
Transit Tour and Welcome Happy Hour
Aslin Beer Company

• 3:30-5 PM: Transit Tour beginning at Friends Meeting House — 4836 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
• 5-7 PM: Spring Training Kick-Off Happy Hour at Aslin Beer Company — 1801 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Saturday, April 26th
Courtyard Pittsburgh University Center
100 Lytton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

8:00-9:00 AM // Check-in

8:30-9:00 AM // Continental breakfast and Networking

9:00-10:00 AM // Opening Plenary

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM // Workshop Block 1, advocates choose from:
•Developing Strong Transit Worker-Rider Alliances
•Sharing Your Transit Story: Effectively Using Your Story to Mobilize

12:00-1:00 PM // Lunch (provided with RSVP)

1:00-2:30 PM // Workshop Block 2, advocates choose from:
•Identifying Power in Your Personal Networks: Spidermapping
•MI, MD, and PA Case Studies: Statewide Funding Fights for the Transit Service We Deserve

Let’s go for a walk! (Mobile Workshop – space limited, pre-registration required)

2:45 – 4:15 PM // Workshop Block 3, advocates choose from:
•How to Facilitate Excellent Community Meetings and Navigate Conflict in the Moment
•Campaigns 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Building a Winning Strategy

4:15 – 4:30 PM // BREAK for Refreshments and Snacks

4:30 – 5:00 PM // Closing Statements and Farewell

5:00 – 5:30 PM // Social Time

Find more information and registration here: https://www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/national-transit-advocacy-spring-training/