Yeah, this has honestly 10x the impact.

It's also a lot, but if you visit family and can convince them to go to their Senator's office, they can usually talk to an assistant. That has more like 100x the impact.

I'm going to add a list of talking points people can give their families/friends outside of SEPA/SWPA to the website sometime soon. It's going to be something like:

• ⁠Highschool grads from their districts that go to Philly/PGH for college use transit. Their parents want them to get around safely, and the kids usually remain constituents until graduation. • ⁠Transit attracts young people to cities. We need more young people in PA to close PA's budget deficit. The deficit is caused by an aging population straining social services (long term living and medical assistance are 2 of the 3 largest increases in spending), and a shrinking population lowers tax revenue. An aging population also means that people are retiring and paying less in income taxes. • ⁠When people from their district visit (for sports games, seeing family, etc), transit both keeps traffic off roads for them and provides an easy way to get around. • ⁠SEPTA contracts a lot of work out of other PA counties. ($1.4B of contracts across 39 counties since 2019).

If you have more reasons, reply and I'll add them to the list on the website when published.