You have stumbled on the problem with building more light rail. is very expensive to build it to all the suburbs. It is a lot cheaper to build dedicated busways in the core that are shared by multiple routes while buses use existing routes further out I. The suburbs. There is a project in the 5-15 year time frame to build rapid bus transit on the sourth shore of the Allegheny to new Kensington and a project in the 15-25 year timeline for some smaller bus improvements on the north shore of the Allegheny from Etna to Natrona.

https://nextransitdraftplan.blob.core.windows.net/finalplan/NEXTransit%20-%20FINAL-web%209-16-21.pdf

Map is on page 54

The county is going to put most transit funding toward bus lanes since we already have decent dedicated bus ways. Building a comprehensive light rail network would cost around $10 billion dollars and the state republicans prefer to build highways instead. There are two trolly extensions under consideration - northward to Bellevue or Ross.

Page 54 has the map of future projects

https://nextransitdraftplan.blob.core.windows.net/finalplan/NEXTransit%20-%20FINAL-web%209-16-21.pdf

Sky bus would have been a boondoggle had they spent money in it but I don’t think they did. All the funding when to the trolley redline instead. They spent $500 million in 1980 dollars or $2billion in todays money to build the red line. Add another $500 billion for the blue line and $500 million for the north shore extension.

Here are some interesting pictures during the build out

https://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Trolleys/Trolley29.html

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If only there was $1.3 Billion that could be allocated to improving transportation in the region

How is the red line a “boondoggle?” Converting old trolley and interurban ROWs into LRT with an integrated Downtown subway system is fundamentally sound transit planning. The mistake is that Port Authority only did this for a couple South Hills routes instead of across the city (partially due to the huge bet they placed on “Skybus,” which was an actual boondoggle).

Honestly, the T most definitely could use some expansion. They could start by restoring the green line and the brown line. I've ridden both the T and the Metro in Washington D.C. as well. It's been a boon to our nation's capitol and, given our past light rail history, It could be a boon for Pittsburgh too.

Because saying “UPitt” is redundant.

Pitt = University of Pittsburgh

UPitt = University University of Pittsburgh

Skybus was gadgetban and a total boondoggle. If Port Authority had instead put its energy right off the bat towards the busways and streamlining the streetcar system into a comprehensive LRT system, then today we’d have one of the best transit systems pound for pound in North America.

I hate that this is the most famous fantasy Prt Authority map. If I recall correctly, this was a college project for some jag who had zero connection to Pittsburgh, and it shows through the shoddy map design and some absolutely nonsensical routing.

Haha, indeed. Now we just have University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University (renamed since Ryerson was very problematic)

I suppose you don’t have to worry about getting it confused with the highly prestigious University of Toledo /s

Well damn, I pass this every day and never realized what it was. It's located just outside of the Allegheny Airport, what used to be the Bombarider parking lot.

Boooo

Oddly similar to DC's lines. I approve this though.

Ya you never feel thirsty in Pittsburgh. Can certainly believe it.

This is good advice. It's much, much worse to run gas without oil in an engine that requires mixed gas than it is to run mixed gas in an engine that runs on gasoline.

Wanna come over for some Water 💧 and ?

It used to be a park and ride, they should think about bringing it back since it's county owned.

Sheetz

Would it be nice? Absolutely. Is it possible? Most likely. Will it happen? No. We'll have toll booths on the Fort Pitt Bridge before any meaningful and useful Public Transport

Nah they aren't called that anymore. I don't know what they changed the name to, though. It'll be memory holed like how Heinz Field is still Heinz Field

My self-terminated cables frequently negotiate down to 100Mb from 1000. Honestly, I gave up and bought a good wi-fi adapter which gets about 200Mb and 18ms pings, which is good enough for most of what I do. And then the leftover 800Mb of bandwidth, I don't have to worry about the kids DLing a PS5 game or streaming 4k.

I’ll just be happy with the red and yellow lines but that’s be amazing

And it was killed by politicians who mistakenly thought it would be better to deface our city with billions of dollars worth of decaying roads and complicated and unpredictable bus lines.

Also remaking that with modern electric rail tech instead of rubber tire busses could easily triple its top speed while reducing energy and maintenance costs and increasing capacity.