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The Port Authority, Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh, and the URA are working together to design a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project that will run from Downtown Pittsburgh, through Uptown and Oakland, and into the eastern suburbs and Monongahela Valley.
A request for proposals (RFP) for the construction phase in downtown Pittsburgh is expected to be issued later this year with construction beginning in the first half of 2023.
An RFP for the second phase—Uptown and Oakland—is expected to be issued in 2023, with construction on that phase beginning in 2024.
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June 13, 2023: BRT is fully funded with $150 million from the Federal Transit Administration. The "University Line" will run between Downtown, Uptown, and Oakland. Work on the Downtown section of the University Line is expected to get under way this fall. Source: WESA.
December 15, 2022: PRT is conducting a public comment period for the purpose of receiving public comment regarding proposed major service changes through 5 PM EST on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.
June 27, 2022: Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and the City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) held a DAM (see above). The emphasis of this meeting was station design and art.
December 2021: The Federal Transit Administration continues their review of the BRT plans and work is now projected to start in late 2022. The Port Authority expects the system to be in operation by the end of 2023.
January 2021: The design is at 90%. Multiple public meetings were held earlier this year, and construction is set to begin in the fall/winter of 2021, pending approval of federal funding.
October 2019: The BRT design is at 60% and is at the stage in the process called “value engineering,” during which a consulting team of engineers reviews the proposal and suggests money-saving solutions. One recommended solution is to consider not completing a full-depth reconstruction of streets in Uptown and, instead, opting to just re-surface. Since the complete re-construction of streets in Uptown was a big selling point to residents, the Port Authority and DOMI hosted a public meeting on November 6, 2019, in Uptown to gather community feedback.