Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes $282 million more for transit, achieved with an additional 1.75 percent of the Pennsylvania Sales Tax deposited into the Public Transportation Trust Fund.
This is the first investment of its kind in more than 10 years.
The proposal includes additional $5.4 million in rabbittransit, a public transportation provider offering services to the residents of Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Union, and York counties, in the 2024-25 fiscal year
The agency would use funding to increase frequency on its 1W west York route.
“Transit is the great equalizer” Richard Farr rabbittransit executive director, said. “Providing mobility assists everyone to participate fully in society. It allows our friends and neighbors to access employment opportunities, medical needs, access to food and allows individuals to be connected to each other. It helps keep the economy moving.”
A recent event at the Harrisburg Area Community College York campus highlighted how the budget proposal would help connect south central Pennsylvania residents to opportunity.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll, and officials from the college, rabbittransit, the York County Economic Alliance, and the United Way of York attended the event.
rabbittransit makes approximately 14,000 annual trips to and from the campus.