The Steel City's Charming Transit System (Episode 4 - Pittsburgh Light Rail)

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Check out a California native's first time in the East Coast, as we explore the Pittsburgh Regional Transit's Light Rail system (PRT), a charming system that has a lot of community character. This is a system unlike any I've ever ridden, and its rolling hills and expansive tunnels and bridges are eye candy for adventurers. Welcome to the T.
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@arxligion

(their vehicles are) very similar to SacRT's. Interesting! I had not known that Pittsburgh had an LRT system before this.

@PDXLibertarian

If you're going to talk about Pittsburgh, you have to understand how the East Coast rivers work because it explains the 19th century development including the early railroads. Pittsburgh is the first major city in the Mississippi Basin, meaning its commerce would float down and out to New Orleans, unlike the Eastern Seaboard cities that drained into the Atlantic. Look up Braddocks's Road (this also explains the Maryland panhandle). Chicago has a similar situation because it's on the border of two major drainages.

@carlfeola4574

The major issue with Transit expansion in Pa is the source of funding. Pa does not levy a tax (ie sales tax that is voted on by the residence of that community) to fund transit projects like in other states. Most of the funding comes from PA gas tax, then the state governments allocates the funds to the state's 33 transit agencies. The locate governments are required to fund a small portion of their transit system's budget. In the case of PRT, it is Allegheny County. So, since the residence do not have a direct "say" in funding, local and state politicians will not raise taxes to fund transit expansion projects. At the state level, state reps from rural counties do not support using gas tax funds to support transit projects that do not benefit their districts. The non-urban state reps are more interested in funding road and bridge projects.

@RockinRavenVA

The T is great in its way, but as a regular visitor to Pittsburgh, it is kind of confusing for tourists. Few of the trains have system maps inside them, the guidance on when to swipe your travel pass is unclear, the posted schedule is often just a suggestion, and frequency of trains outside the Golden Triangle area is terrible. Many of the stations need a total overhaul with better shade options and seating. Still, I'm grateful I can stay in the South Hills and use it to go Downtown instead of driving. Something is better than nothing.

@roblywobly

Pittsburgh is much better at buses than they are at trains. There was a proposal in the early 90s to build a subway tunnel under the hill to Oakland, but we got the sports tunnel under the Allegheny instead. I read the document, but can't recall where I found it I'm afraid; there were three options, one under Duquesne, one under the hill, and then a third that was basically a budget option. Apparently hill residents wanted the tunnel and had told the planners so in community outreach meetings, and for obvious reasons-- something like 40% of residents had no car. The East busway carries as many riders as the red and blue combined, iirc.

@BobbyT.

I’ll give them a little credit I would much prefer light rail but Pittsburgh does have some bus ways to other communities that provide decent service and act similar to a light rail line. Would like to see more work done towards expanding the light rail network rather than more bus ways but it’s not the worst thing in the world. As someone who lives 5 minutes from a t station it’s really convenient to have especially for sporting events. Makes travel to downtown a lot easier, cheaper, and time saving because you avoid traffic and parking.

@dessiesolomonjr-nl6zl 14 часов назад

Pittsburgh native here. We don't call it Saw Mill Run Blvd. We just say Rt. 51.

@pavld335

The problem with those mall parking lots, is they need them for the holidays. It's so stupid.

@rynovoski 19 часов назад

Pittsburgh has one of the most accessible older system in the country, I think. 31% of the NYC subway is accessible. Not that that's a good thing.

@iananderson5050

The issue with Pittsburgh's system is it has been gutted so badly from the 80s to now. If they had saved jusy 2 of the longer routes it would be utilized MUCH more

@yinzerwx 7 часов назад

Grew up riding the T from SS to SHV with my grandma back in the 90s; thanks for covering!

@TheMichigami

there's another rail route that runs up over mt washington that is only used currently in emergencies when the tunnel is blocked as it branches off between first avenue and station square up onto the hill and meets up with the other lines again at south hills junction. There's been a campaign from residents along the route to get it back in active service for many years now. I was able to ride out that way a few times due to them detouring the trains for problems over the years, it'd be good for the neighborhoods out that way to have rail service again.

@vidguy1976 День назад

Part of the reason for the abandonment of many routes is that Pittsburgh Railway spent more of its history in receivership than not.

@AverytheCubanAmerican

The shared operation of the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel being used by both buses and trains makes it so interesting. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel famously used to operate this way between 2009 and 2019. Before that, it was a 1980s bus tunnel originally proposed as a rapid transit tunnel but after Seattle rejected it in the 1960s, federal funds went to Atlanta for MARTA! So after the buses left the Seattle tunnel and it became light-rail only in 2019, the tunnel in Pittsburgh is now the only one in the US used by just buses and trains. But there is ANOTHER road-rail tunnel in the US, the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel in Whittier, Alaska!

@knapptimezzz

As someone who grew up near Pittsburgh and now lives in the Bay Area I appreciate this video and all of your videos

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

Monongahela reportedly comes from one of several interpretations or spellings of one or more presumably Delaware words such as “Mehmannauwinggelan”, “Menaungehilla”, or “Meh-non-ge-heh-lal” which have been translated into phrases such as “many landslides”, “high banks or bluffs, breaking off and falling down in places”, or “places of caving or falling banks” which originally referred to the point of the junction between the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers at McKeesport. The Monongahela Incline backstory is interesting! Pittsburgh's expanding industrial base in 1860 created a huge demand for labor, attracting mainly German immigrants to the region.

@Mark_Cadden

This video is unreal. I would never have known you weren’t from Pittsburgh the way you researched, pronounced everything right and had tons of anecdotes. I’m from Pittsburgh and don’t really take the T so I even learned some stuff here. Well done

@danphillips9382

I go to school in Pittsburgh and they need an LRT extension into the college neighborhoods in Oakland and Duquesne that could also connect to PPG paints arena

@bmsp6880

Great video! thank u for talking abt ADA so much as a disabled person it means a lot!

@luislaplume8261

I got to admit Pittsburgh has life to it when compared to San Francisco and it does have an attractive light rail urban and suburban system. I dont consider it just a city system. 😊