FACT SHEET: Governor Shapiro’s Budget Proposal Will Deliver Additional Funding to Transit Agencies Across Pennsylvania

Governor Shapiro’s 2025-26 budget proposal includes $292 million in new funding to support transit systems that serve nearly one million Pennsylvania riders each day in rural, urban, and suburban communities across the Commonwealth.

Harrisburg, PA – Under Governor Shapiro’s 2025-26 proposed budget, transit services in all 67 counties across Pennsylvania would benefit from increased state support. This funding would help create jobs, connect communities, and grow Pennsylvania’s economy — ensuring Pennsylvanians who ride mass transit have a reliable, affordable way to commute to work, go to school, access health care, and travel where they need to go.

The Governor’s 2025–26 budget proposal includes $292 million in new mass transit funding next year, generating $1.5 billion over the next five years. This is the first significant increase in state support for mass transit in more than a decade, benefiting transit systems in every county that serve nearly one million riders each day in rural, urban, and suburban communities across the Commonwealth.

Governor Shapiro’s proposal would not raise taxes. Instead, it would increase the portion of the Sales and Use Tax dedicated to public transit — from 7.68 percent to 9.43 percent — generating $292 million in new annual funding next year and more than $330 million annually by 2029–30.

The additional money from the Governor’s proposal would be distributed to agencies through a legislatively established funding formula.

Here’s how the Governor’s budget proposal would benefit transit agencies across Pennsylvania:

Transit Agency

Counties Served

Additional Funds

Altoona Metro Transit (Amtran)

Blair

$1,050,004

Area Transportation Authority of Northcentral PA (ATA)

Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, Jefferson, McKean, Potter

$1,889,184

Beaver County Transit Authority (BCTA)

Beaver

$984,879

Borough of Mt. Carmel (LATS)

Northumberland

$91,857

Borough of Pottstown/Pottstown Area Rapid Transit (PART)

Montgomery

$463,147

Butler Transit Authority (BTA)

Butler

$431,320

Cambria County Transportation Authority (CAMTRAN)

Cambria

$1,740,096

Centre Area Transit Authority (CATA)

Centre

$3,812,318

County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS)

Lackawanna

$1,935,476

County of Lebanon Transit Authority (COLT/LT)

Lebanon

$624,157

Crawford Area Transportation Authority (CATA/Venango Transit)

Crawford, Venango

$659,891

Endless Mountains Transportation Authority (EMTA/BeST)

Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga

$562,253

Erie Metropolitan Transportation Authority (EMTA)

Erie

$2,958,229

Fayette Area Coordinated Transit (FACT)

Fayette

$595,727

Hazleton Public Transit (HPT)

Luzerne

$606,006

Indiana County Transit Authority (IndiGO)

Indiana

$521,668

Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANta)

Lehigh, Northampton

$6,550,498

Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA)

Luzerne

$2,009,298

Mercer County Regional Council of Governments (MCRCOG)/Shenango Valley Shuttle Service (SVSS)

Mercer

$288,838

Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority (MMVTA)

Washington, Westmoreland

$953,489

Mid County Transit Authority (Town and Country Transit)

Armstrong

$130,886

Monroe County Transit Authority (MCTA)

Monroe

$625,131

New Castle Area Transit Authority (NCATA)

Lawrence

$1,219,320

Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT)

Allegheny

$40,067,610

Schuylkill Transit System (STS)

Schuylkill

$415,427

Southcentral Transit Authority (SCTA)

Berks, Lancaster

$5,864,331

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA)

Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery

$167,732,232

Susquehanna Regional Transit Authority (SRT)

Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, York

$5,716,866

Transit Authority of Warren County (TAWC)

Warren

$238,218

Washington County Transit Authority (WCTA/Freedom Transit)

Washington

$469,756

Westmoreland County Transportation Authority (WCTA)

Westmoreland

$1,169,939

Williamsport River Valley Transit (RVT)

Lycoming

$1,394,950

Shared Ride/Statewide Program Support

All

$38,226,999

TOTAL

 

$292,000,000

More information on public transit and alternative transportation options like ridesharing, biking, and walking, is available on PennDOT’s website. For more information on PennDOT’s ongoing infrastructure projects, visit penndot.pa.gov. Information about the state’s infrastructure and results PennDOT is delivering for Pennsylvanians can be found at penndot.pa.gov/results.

For more information on this commonsense budget and the investments it makes in Pennsylvania, visit shapirobudget.pa.gov.

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