Episode 26: Transit in the Age of Coronavirus

Well There‘s Your Problem

WTYP is Justin Roczniak, November Kelly, Liam McAnderson, and friends.

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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This is an emergency podcast where we talk about actual organizing stuff, which it turns out you can do successfully even in a pandemic! Here are the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEKzJ7h54Uc even though as mentioned we've won our main demand, there's still work to be done. here are the links: Sign the TRU petition, first to support the radically good ideas of the TRU, but most importantly for action – we'll be contacting everyone on that list to prep them to participate in the fare hearings live. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-septa-no-fare-hike-during-a-pandemic/ The hearings will be May 26, 2020 - 11:00 am & 6:00 pm and May 27, 2020 - 10:00 am & 4:00 pm. Philly TRU will livestream the hearings - check phillytru.org or @phillyTRU on twitter for details

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm adding this bit in in post because it actually the news came out while I was about to render the podcast
0:08.0	so most of this episode deals with a SEPTA fair restructuring, right?
0:15.3	SEPTA's Philadelphia's bus and trolley and subway public transportation network,
0:22.1	right? We're talking about a fair restructuring,
0:25.6	which included a fair increase for certain people, which is going to get pushed through
0:30.5	during this pandemic we're having right now, right?
0:34.8	Well, just as I was about to render this,
0:38.8	SEPTA announced they're gonna postpone
0:41.5	that fair increase until January 2021 while the good parts of the
0:47.3	restructuring which were free transfers are still going to go through on June 1st.
0:54.0	So, a lot of this episode is already out of date
0:58.0	less than 24 hours after we recorded,
1:01.0	but you know, the news moves fast sometimes.
1:04.1	Anyway, we at the Philly Transit Writers Union are going to try and ask for more.
1:10.1	So, you know, listen to our calls for action, sign up to do stuff, join Philly Transit
1:16.5	Writers Union, you know, you can be part of a political organization that wins stuff.
1:21.8	You know, we've been doing a lot of winning recently actually. It's
1:24.8	felt pretty good. Anyway, on to the podcast.
1:29.6	Hello everyone and welcome to a special emergency episode.
1:37.0	Put a siren.
1:40.0	Put a siren.
1:42.0	Yeah, put a siren there.
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