A Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT system has been in the works in one form or another for more than a decade in Pittsburgh. It has been hailed as a way to make public transportation more efficient and more appealing, as well as a means to support economic growth in the region.
In September, those plans took a significant step forward: the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh and the Urban Redevelopment Authority applied for $100 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration’s Small Starts grant program; it’s about half of the project’s estimated cost.
BRT vehicles would run on dedicated lanes between Downtown and Oakland before splitting into branches: one would run along the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway to Wilkinsburg, another through Highland Park and the third through Squirrel Hill.
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