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2012 Proposed Service Reduction Information

Page has info on service reductions, plus system maps of the current system and what PAT will look like if the cuts go through.
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Very cool that this train would go into the light rail tunnel and connect directly to the T at Steel Plaza. There is enough space in there especially since it would be using the rarely used T spur to Penn Station.

Rail line developers seek Port Authority's advice

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Developers of a proposed $350 million commuter rail line between Lower Burrell and Downtown asked Port Authority officials on Friday to help them determine the best way to connect the line to the East Busway and Steel Plaza Station.

Port Authority officials said they would cooperate, but stressed they could not afford to put any money toward the project. The agency is facing a $64 million deficit for the fiscal year starting in July.

"We are not asking Port Authority for any money," said Robert Ardolino, president of Urban Innovations, the project's lead consultant. Allegheny Valley Railroad owns the tracks on which the line would operate.

Ardolino said Cleveland-based First Service Commercial Loans has pledged up to $350 million in private financing. Developers also are seeking federal grants, loans and other funding.

The commuter rail line would run 22 miles along existing Allegheny Valley freight tracks. The line then would pass over a Norfolk Southern rail line in the Strip District, then connect to the East Busway before following the path of an unused light-rail "T" line into the Steel Plaza subway station.

The alignment would require removal of Port Authority's police station and another building, but Ardolino said the facilities could be relocated to a planned switching station that would be built as part of the project.

Ardolino said five stations are planned along the route, with a possible sixth one along the East Busway. He expects it to take about 40 minutes to travel the length of the line, which is expected to cost $7 each way when it opens, tentatively in 2016. About 7,000 daily riders are expected.
Edited by Jayayess1190, Jan 28 2012, 01:13 PM.
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Saturday Diary / When the bus ride Downtown was beeeeeautiful!
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Crews hustle to finish subway extension to North Shore

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With a service debut a little more than five weeks away, Port Authority is running trains through the North Shore Connector and hustling to complete more than 1,000 separate systems tests in the 1.2-mile subway extension.

"Things are fast and furious, kind of like just before a wedding," said Winston Simmonds, the authority's rail operations/engineering officer, during a briefing for a board committee on Wednesday.

Passenger service on the $523.4 million extension is scheduled to begin March 25. The authority is preparing an educational campaign that will feature advertising, special Web pages and a YouTube video shot from a rail vehicle as it made its way through the new tunnels beneath the Allegheny River.

The connector extends the Light Rail Transit system from a new Gateway Center station, Downtown, to two new stations across the river. The underground station near PNC Park is, for now, North Side station, and the elevated station adjacent to Heinz Field is Allegheny station, but the authority is hoping to sell naming rights for both.

Construction is virtually complete, Mr. Simmonds said, with only minor "punch list" work remaining...


PAT's proposed cuts to public transit could cause traffic spillover

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The same rivers and rugged terrain that give Pittsburgh its identity give its communities transportation headaches that proposed public transit cuts could turn into migraines, business and government officials said.

"Transportation is one of the biggest challenges if you're talking about growth and development, particularly in the east," said Barry J. Layton, chairman of the Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Eastern communities' main transportation problem is the bottleneck that the Squirrel Hill tunnels create on the Parkway East. The long-term solution would be completing the Mon-Fayette Expressway, he said. The project, which would create a bypass around the tunnels, has languished for years while officials have looked for about $5 billion to finish it.

The expressway is planned to cut Parkway East traffic by more than half, which would cut time spent traveling between Monroeville and Downtown by half, Layton said. It would make reaching the airport easier, which would help Monroeville businesses, he said.

"If you look on a map, the Parkway East is a straight line (to the airport)," he said. "It doesn't seem it when you're driving it, but it is the most direct route."

Meanwhile, the Martin Luther King Jr. Busway, which runs from Downtown to Swissvale, is one of the fastest ways to reach Pittsburgh, where thousands of people from the eastern suburbs work, Layton said.

If the Port Authority makes the cuts it has proposed, it not only degrades that service but puts more cars on the already clogged parkway.

"The cuts are going to be devastating," Layton said.
Edited by Jayayess1190, Feb 16 2012, 03:42 PM.
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Jayayess1190
Jan 28 2012, 01:10 PM
Very cool that this train would go into the light rail tunnel and connect directly to the T at Steel Plaza. There is enough space in there especially since it would be using the rarely used T spur to Penn Station.

Rail line developers seek Port Authority's advice

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Developers of a proposed $350 million commuter rail line between Lower Burrell and Downtown asked Port Authority officials on Friday to help them determine the best way to connect the line to the East Busway and Steel Plaza Station.

Port Authority officials said they would cooperate, but stressed they could not afford to put any money toward the project. The agency is facing a $64 million deficit for the fiscal year starting in July.

"We are not asking Port Authority for any money," said Robert Ardolino, president of Urban Innovations, the project's lead consultant. Allegheny Valley Railroad owns the tracks on which the line would operate.

Ardolino said Cleveland-based First Service Commercial Loans has pledged up to $350 million in private financing. Developers also are seeking federal grants, loans and other funding.

The commuter rail line would run 22 miles along existing Allegheny Valley freight tracks. The line then would pass over a Norfolk Southern rail line in the Strip District, then connect to the East Busway before following the path of an unused light-rail "T" line into the Steel Plaza subway station.

The alignment would require removal of Port Authority's police station and another building, but Ardolino said the facilities could be relocated to a planned switching station that would be built as part of the project.

Ardolino said five stations are planned along the route, with a possible sixth one along the East Busway. He expects it to take about 40 minutes to travel the length of the line, which is expected to cost $7 each way when it opens, tentatively in 2016. About 7,000 daily riders are expected.
Wow - this is very interesting!
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Feb 16 2012, 03:39 PM
Crews hustle to finish subway extension to North Shore

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With a service debut a little more than five weeks away, Port Authority is running trains through the North Shore Connector and hustling to complete more than 1,000 separate systems tests in the 1.2-mile subway extension.

"Things are fast and furious, kind of like just before a wedding," said Winston Simmonds, the authority's rail operations/engineering officer, during a briefing for a board committee on Wednesday.

Passenger service on the $523.4 million extension is scheduled to begin March 25. The authority is preparing an educational campaign that will feature advertising, special Web pages and a YouTube video shot from a rail vehicle as it made its way through the new tunnels beneath the Allegheny River.

The connector extends the Light Rail Transit system from a new Gateway Center station, Downtown, to two new stations across the river. The underground station near PNC Park is, for now, North Side station, and the elevated station adjacent to Heinz Field is Allegheny station, but the authority is hoping to sell naming rights for both.

Construction is virtually complete, Mr. Simmonds said, with only minor "punch list" work remaining...


PAT's proposed cuts to public transit could cause traffic spillover

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The same rivers and rugged terrain that give Pittsburgh its identity give its communities transportation headaches that proposed public transit cuts could turn into migraines, business and government officials said.

"Transportation is one of the biggest challenges if you're talking about growth and development, particularly in the east," said Barry J. Layton, chairman of the Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Eastern communities' main transportation problem is the bottleneck that the Squirrel Hill tunnels create on the Parkway East. The long-term solution would be completing the Mon-Fayette Expressway, he said. The project, which would create a bypass around the tunnels, has languished for years while officials have looked for about $5 billion to finish it.

The expressway is planned to cut Parkway East traffic by more than half, which would cut time spent traveling between Monroeville and Downtown by half, Layton said. It would make reaching the airport easier, which would help Monroeville businesses, he said.

"If you look on a map, the Parkway East is a straight line (to the airport)," he said. "It doesn't seem it when you're driving it, but it is the most direct route."

Meanwhile, the Martin Luther King Jr. Busway, which runs from Downtown to Swissvale, is one of the fastest ways to reach Pittsburgh, where thousands of people from the eastern suburbs work, Layton said.

If the Port Authority makes the cuts it has proposed, it not only degrades that service but puts more cars on the already clogged parkway.

"The cuts are going to be devastating," Layton said.
Hope those riders will their alternative way to get around those service cuts.

PAT should sell those routes to private operators as leaving riders in those areas is a shame way for leaving them stranded there.
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ACTC Januaruy 2012 Meeting:

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Port Authority is doing a "Transit Meger Study"
The transit study will actually be run by Pittsburgh, but with the help from the Port Authority. This study will conclude weather they become a system like SEPTA, which would mean that PAT, BCTA, New Castle, MMVTA, WCT and FACT will become one system run by the government.

Port Authority will soon have the newest fleet in the USA
Any bus past the year of 2007 will stay, any buses before the year of 2007 will be sold off to make room for more New Flyer articulated buses and to make room for more Gillig Advantages, both 40ft and 35ft long. They think that if Port Authority has the newest fleet it may improve the morale of the drivers, and also let the people in Washington D.C. see that they are making an effort and maybe they will provide more money.


Wow, that would mean no more Detroit Diesel in Pittsburgh meaning my Metroliner's and awesome DD50/DD60 Neo artics would be gone. :'(

And it PAT merged with all those agencies, I could get some serious mileage with my Pitt ID.
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3 Years of free rides on the North Shore Connector thanks to The Steelers and Rivers Casino:

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Jayayess1190
Feb 22 2012, 10:03 PM
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Port Authority is doing a "Transit Meger Study"
The transit study will actually be run by Pittsburgh, but with the help from the Port Authority. This study will conclude weather they become a system like SEPTA, which would mean that PAT, BCTA, New Castle, MMVTA, WCT and FACT will become one system run by the government.


And if PAT merged with all those agencies, I could get some serious mileage with my Pitt ID.
1. This would make a lot of sense in the long-run. That said, they should also include Butler, Armstrong and Indiana counties in a study; not saying that Armstrong or Indiana counties need to be part of a new regional system, but they are part of the Pittsburgh MPO. A long-term goal should be to consider regional bus service via downtown Pittsburgh (ie. Greensburg to Beaver County via East Busway or Oakland to Downtown, then via West Busway/376 and the airport to Rochester or New Castle).

2. WCT: You referring to Washington City or Westmoreland County?

3. Never mind your Pitt ID... I'd be happy if I could get mileage out of my Cal U ID (which is where I'm considering transferring to).
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^^ Most likely talking about Westmoreland County Transit.
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