Greetings Philadelphia! I’m so deeply honored to begin my new role as your @WorkingFamilies City Councilmember At-Large. Please follow along here for updates from myself and our team as we commence the people’s work in City Hall. ✊🏽
Want to plug in to the #APN initiative?
Your first chance is on 11/20, when I join up with @SenatorSaval and @transit4philly to talk:
💰SEPTA’s funding crisis
🚃 Transit Access Fund
🎤 Your SEPTA stories/questions/concerns
RSVP: https://t.co/IxDY8UuLUk
Last but not least, the Transit Access Fund!
I introduced this charter change back in April, when SEPTA’s Zero Fare program was on the chopping block.
SEPTA’s funding crisis constrains cost-burdened riders the most — we’ve got to ease that pain for as many as possible.
Stay in the Fight for RGGI!
Environmental groups, Philly city & state representatives, local advocates came out to demand Governor Shapiro & state lawmakers reject a budget deal that kills Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in PA
@ConservationPA@CleanAirMoms_PA@SierraClubPA
Tomorrow, I’m introducing legislation to create the Philadelphia Transit Access Fund! 🚇
I was glad to chat with @StreetsblogUSA about the initiative, and why I want to put the idea before Philly voters.
We are grateful for Council’s support of our funding efforts in Harrisburg and we ask everyone who values #SEPTA’s critical role in the city’s future to make your voices heard. #ISEPTAPHILLY#HowWeRoll
Ahead of City Council’s budget hearing with SEPTA, we rode the L (Market-Frankford Line) from 52nd Street to City Hall to speak with riders and sound the alarm about proposed doomsday service cuts and fare hikes.
Our region generates almost 40% of Pennsylvania’s economy activity on 5% of land. This is only possible because of SEPTA.
Harrisburg Republicans need to come to the table and make a deal to keep our economy moving forward.
@KendraPHL and I will work to ensure we’re not in this position again.
Our transit infrastructure is the envy of many peer cities, we can’t afford to let it fail.
I joined my @phlcouncil colleagues, @repkrajewski, and medical professionals from across our city as resident physicians at CHOP, Jefferson, Einstein, and Temple announced their intention to unionize with @cirseiu!
Residents deserve dignified working conditions that respect the limits of their bodies while we ask them to heal ours. And they deserve to earn enough money to care for their families while we ask them to care for ours!
I have the backs of these residents, just like I have the backs of 1,400 unionized resident physicians at Penn Medicine!
Keziah Ridgeway: Lots has been said about me but "what motivates me has never been hate." Reads an original poem about her ancestors and who she is. "My hands are soft but they are hardened by my ancestors' strength." #PHLed
Thank you to the elected officials showing up in solidarity with @cirseiu! Philly is a union town and these workers deserve world class wages and world class contracts!