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These communities will lose all service with the Bus Line Refresh proposal – RSVP by 5/27 for your final chance to give feedback on the plan

Whether you live in McKeesport or McKees Rocks, the Hill District or the South Hills, our public transit system needs to work for everyone.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) will soon close their community engagement period for the second draft of their Bus Line Redesign (BLR). The redesign proposes a redrawn map of where transit routes will run. It includes new schedules for how frequently and how late at night buses and trains operate, and even proposes renaming all the routes in the system.

Tens of thousands of people who use the system every day will be affected. Allegheny County Transit riders, transit workers, businesses, social service providers—we all have a stake in a Bus Line Redesign that works for all.

The Bus Line Refresh plan is complicated and will affect everyone differently. That’s why it’s very important that transit riders and transit workers review your routes and give feedback now! You can check out how your routes will be impacted and give feedback online, by phone, or at an upcoming PRT community event here.

This is the last opportunity for the public to weigh in before PRT finalizes and ratifies this transit plan- one that will impact our transit service for generations!

Join other transit riders to speak up about impacts of the Bus Line Refresh Draft 2.0 – the good and the bad – at our press conference and public testimony on Friday, 5/29 at 8:30 am at Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s Board meeting.

RSVP Today (Public Testimony Deadline is 5/27)

The Communities Slated for the Greatest Transit Losses under PRT’s Bus Line Refresh 2.0

Under the Bus Line Refresh Draft 2.0, some communities are being proposed for transit service improvements with higher frequency service or new direct connections to critical destinations. Other communities will see transit service cuts- this is the consequence of Pittsburgh Regional Transit deciding to develop a “cost-neutral” plan rather than a more visionary proposal for service restoration and expansion.

In the coming days, we will publish a proposed list of transit service improvements under the BLR 2.0, but right now, it’s most important that transit riders who are slated to lose access to all transit service get a chance to review and respond to the plan.

Below, we lay out the communities in which transit service currently exists, but under the proposed Bus Line Refresh Draft 2.0 will be left little to no service.

We used existing route numbers (not the route numbers proposed in the new plan) to help riders identify whether they will be impacted. Routes are listed numerically regardless of alpha-prefix.

2/P13 – Shaler: Mt Royal Blvd – 15101
2/O5/P13 – McCandless: Ferguson Rd, Sample Rd – 15101, 15237
4/7 – Reserve Township – 15212
O5 – Ross Township: Thompson Run Rd – 15237
6/7/15 – Summer Hill – 15214
O12 – Perry Highway North – 15237
14/18 – Lower Half of Chateau/Manchester – 15233
20 – Groveton/Kennedy Township: Herbst Rd – 15108
27 – Windgap/Middletown: Segments on Middletown Rd and outer Chartiers Ave – 15204/15205
28X – Robinson Town Center and 5th Ave in Shadyside – 15205
36 – Mount Lebanon: Cedar Blvd to South Hills Village – 15228
36 – Banksville Rd transit service eliminated off-peak and weekends – 15216
38 – Wynnecliff Manor in Scott Township – 15220
39 – Ebenshire Village in Brookline – 15226
40/43 – Kathleen St/Beltzhoover Ave/Boggs Ave in the North side of Warrington – 15210/15211
44 – North Baldwin – 15236, 15227
Y45 – Baldwin/Whitehall/South Park – 15236
52L – West Mifflin: Homeville Rd and Duquesne Village Shopping Center – 15122
54 – Bon Air – 15210
55/P76 – East McKeesport – 15131
65/74 – Squirrel Hill: Shady Ave, Beechwood Blvd – 15217
74 – Point Breeze: Reynolds St – 15208
77/P16 – Penn Hills/Plum: Hulton Arbors – 15235, 15239
77/P16 – Penn Hills: Monroeville Trestle Rd and Saltsburg Rd, North Bessemer, Leechburg Rd – 15235
79/P17 – Lincoln Park: Mark Drive, Grove Rd, Chaske St, Mt Carmel Rd – 15206/15235/15147
P76 – White Oak: Rt 48 corridor – 15131
P76 – North Versailles: Rt 30 beyond Walmart – 15235

Major Severed Routes: Where New Transfers May be Required for Current Trips

Some current bus lines are being broken up into 2 or 3 different routes. For riders on these routes, that might mean new transfers where you currently have a direct trip.

Riders can go toFind My Route on the PRT Bus Line Refresh website to look at how your commute will be impacted, if at all.

We know that 84% of transit trips today taken by PRT riders who use a CONNECT card are direct trips, completed without having to transfer. New transfers can add additional significant time to commutes, can add uncertainty around timing to get to our destinations and more exposure to the elements. Moreover, transit riders who pay with cash will have to pay an additional fare for each additional transfer. We know that riders strongly prefer direct trips over trips requiring a transfer, and so want to ensure that riders have a chance to see and respond to these substantial changes.

Below we list current routes in numerical order, regardless of alpha-prefix, and the point in the route where they have been severed:

1 Freeport Rd at the Waterworks Mall
13 Bellevue/14 Ohio River Blvd/17 Shadeland have been segmented and reassembled in various ways
21 Coraopolis – Coraopolis to Moon/Sewickley
31 Bridgeville at Carnegie Station
41 Bower Hill: Washington Rd at Bower Hill Rd
54 N Side-Oakland-S Side – Lawrenceville/Bloomfield to South Side/Mount Oliver/Beltzhoover/Bon Air
59 Mon Valley – across the Monongahela River
67 Monroeville – Oakland/Squirrel Hill to Monroeville/CCAC Boyce
69 Trafford – Oakland/Squirrel Hill to Forest Hills/Wilmerding/Pitcairn
69 Trafford – to Forbes Hospital
74 Homewood-Squirrel Hill Squirrel Hill to Larimer
75 Ellsworth – to South Side Works
81 Oak Hill/83 Bedford Hill – connections to Hill District Business Area (Centre-Devilliers)
87 Friendship – Bloomfield/Friendship to Morningside/Stanton Hts/Upper Lawrenceville
93 Lawrenceville-Oakland-Hazelwood – Lawrenceville/Bloomfield to Greenfield/Hazelwood
P10/1 – Extend all N1 trips from East Liberty to Downtown to avoid forced transfer
Y47 Curry Flyer from Keeport-Knoedler to Walmart

RSVP Today (Public Testimony Deadline is 5/27)