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    Tunnel under Mount Washington
    Bruce K.

    Now known as Pittsburgh Regional Transit, I wonder how much locals know about the engineering went into the light rail. Specifically, it has a dedicated tunnel under Mount Washington and a dedicated rail bridge over the Monongahela and then a tunnel under the Allegheny. That's a big deal! Today, I paid $7 for an all day pass that includes unlimited rail, bus and incline. AND FREE PARKING at the rail station in the suburbs! Is it perfect? No but my experience today was pretty stellar with just a few hiccups. Out of service escalators are never a good thing. Construction everywhere. Loud trains in the tunnels. But 40 minutes from the suburbs into the heart of downtown Pittsburgh for $2.75 (or $7 for all day) is hard to be unhappy with. If y'all could just get it to run to the airport? Wow, that would be five stars. [Review 20356 overall - 615 in Pennsylvania - 1334 of 2023.]

    Tonya J.

    Now Pittsburgh Regional Transit - We took the trolley and had a connected bus pick us up for open streets from a park and ride lot in town. Quick service and it was free in town. I had not been on them in years. Felt like a tourist! Fun times. Happy we have this service in our city.

    $2.50 go go from Gateway station to see Mt. Washington. Transfer on the Incline is FREE

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    In general, bus service in my area is reliable, except it seems that their schedules use 180-seconds "minutes."

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    Extremely bad. Unreliable and they cut services. Almost ALWAYS has delays. It was very good a few years ago.

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    Amtrak - Union Station Pittsburgh

    Amtrak - Union Station Pittsburgh

    2.6(48 reviews)
    0.4 miDowntown

    We took train 43 from Newark, New Jersey to Pittsburgh, PA. The conductor confirmed that we would…read morehave wheelchair assistance when we arrived at the Union Station. As we were getting off the train, we had hard time handling the luggage from the train to the platform. The lady working at the cafeteria helped us and several other passengers. We were touched by her kindness and admired her thoughtfulness. We waited for assistance, but no one came. We managed to pull our luggage for a short distance, and then the electric golf cart driver came to help us with our heavy luggage and took us to the main building. We did have very good boarding experience and the red cap agents were very helpful and kind. Hopefully, the wheelchair service will be much better in the future.

    There is something almost laughably absurd about the Pittsburgh Amtrak facility. It's difficult to…read moreactually call it a station: it boasts low ceilings, consistently insufficient seating, harsh fluorescent lights, and no food other than a few vending machines. Anyone who has issues with claustrophobia should be prepared. It's jammed into a corner of the basement of The Pennsylvanian, Pittsburgh's former passenger rail station -- a Victorian-era palace well-known for its grandeur. For starters, the auto entrance/drop-off area on Liberty Avenue is cramped, shadowy, and crowded with cars whose drivers are understandably confused by a chaotic parking/traffic layout. Pedestrians are unceremoniously funneled towards a single (too narrow) sliding entrance door. Anyone arriving via transit has had ample opportunity to admire the historic Pennsylvanian building above as they arrive, so the final approach to the current facility is all the more forboding. The Pennsylvanian building, still one of the city's most impressive landmarks, is now home to luxury apartments; its stunning vaulted stone portico hosts high-end weddings and receptions. The portico, which greeted Pittsburgh's rail passengers during the Gilded Age, now serves as a monument to Pittsburgh's past as a premier US rail hub for both freight and passengers. The names of major railroading cities (New York, Chicago, "Pittsburg" in its "no H" era ... ) and sculptural artworks are carved high upon the inner aspect of its towering structure. To slink into the current Amtrak basement station after glimpsing the sunlit uplands of The Pennsylvanian is to understand on a gut level how American rail travel has been marginalized and its resources have been starved over the decades. I've traveled much of the Amtrak network, but I've never visited a mid-size metro with a station better suited to a fiscally insolvent suburb of 50,000 or fewer. The only thing that's missing is a layer of dust -- because this shabby place is always so busy! Even the train shed where passengers board and arrive is beat to hell and falling apart. Although only a few tracks are still in use, the shed is home to half a dozen tracks, most of which haven't seen use in decades. Yes, Pittsburgh is certainly known for its grittiness -- but the rusty, leaky shed is moving towards the "industrial ruin" or "Berlin, circa 1944" category. The two-star review here is 100% for the station staff, certainly not for anything the physical plant has to offer. The staff members, extremely hard-working and long-suffering, do a very solid job of corralling passengers like livestock as they wait (there's only enough seating for about half of the passengers, so unfortunately crowd management is important). They shepherd passengers toward the escalator after opening it for a pending departure. They cooperate with train-based personnel for boarding. Hopefully, Amtrak will renovate the Pittsburgh facility to a level that's even half of what this city deserves. Amtrak enjoyed an all-time ridership record in 2024. Pittsburgh is frequently mentioned in plans for expanded rail service between the East Coast and the Midwest -- and is on the list for future high-speed rail service. That's wonderful news, but in the short-to-mid term, I'd settle for a station that at least reflects that we successfully survived Y2K. Historian Vincent Scully is attributed with a quotation about the jarring differences between old vs. new NYC-based intercity rail travel. But the saying could be easily repurposed for Pittsburgh. In honor of the Amtrak passengers who cram into the basement of The Pennsylvanian each day: "One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat."

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