r/todayilearned Mr. Yuk had his origins in Pittsburgh.

Hah, good one. Take my upvote.

WHAT?!

Yeah, to battery buses that crap out after a few months using rare earth metals that require insane carbon emissions to mine. Definitely the most sustainable option! /s

If you’re gonna have such a hard-on for buses you can at least admit trolleybuses are a better option if they want to be serious about electrification. But they aren’t, and you won’t, so here we are.

Okay, enjoy your gas guzzlers then!

I think you missed the part about the busway itself being at-capacity. If you run too many more buses than they currently do particularly during rush hour you’re going to have bus bunching issues like we currently see on the Pittsburgh-Oakland corridor. Contrary to what many people in this sub wish to believe there does come a point where buses, even articulated ones, are no longer the most efficient solution.

R is for Reginald's!

Get some kick ass shots of trains going across the bridge there.

The East Busway before COVID was pretty much at-capacity and seems to be back to if not past that point now. The most practical thing they could do is convert the busway to light rail (there are even tracks that terminate at Penn Station and connect to Steel Plaza that were built for this exact purpose) but given the staunch anti-rail attitude at PRT we'll probably never see that happen.

Good. Now keep the pressure on PRT to quit worsening service under the guise of BRT "improvements" and maybe actually make an effort to noticeably improve transit in the region. When NEXTransit was underway the planners called it a chance for Pittsburgh to have "world-class transit"...cutting service to some of the most underprivileged communities and calling a few cans of red paint "rapid transit" is not "world-class" to me.

That would require our mods to actually do something.

Dream: Restore the entire streetcar/interurban/commuter rail network we had pre-1950 and expand on it, prioritize public transit over private automobiles, cancel the remaining portions of the Southern Beltway and Mon-Fayette, push for more sustainable zoning laws/parking minumums, and electrify the mainlines used for passenger rail.

Realistic: Fucking rail to Oakland. Maybe up the Ohio River as far as Sewickley with the airport as an eventual goal. Bus routes that don't all run from a suburb to downtown. Restore Allentown and Penn Station rail service. Modernize our water/sewage/utilities. Build some developments in the Lower Hill that will actually benefit current residents. Fix up our sad excuse of an Amtrak station and expand on the existing services.

Future: See dream above.

Doesn’t help that the “moderators” of this sub insist on deliberately not being active and won’t add anyone else as mods.

Original Oyster House downtown.

Sometimes I swear PRT goes out of their way to cut routes and stops, good funding or not.

But unfortunately since it actually makes sense and is practical it will never be done, at least with current PRT management.

Another day, another shitty take from KentuckYSnow.

It did.

The cracker plant. I’m sure nobody will notice. /s

BP represent.

Boy someone is being awfully defensive about texting while driving!

Hard to tell who's the better contender for r/IdiotsInCars, the person who crashed or the person who is taking a picture while they're driving past...

Kennywood management has the wrong idea if they think a new highway is going to attract more visitors to the park. I know a lot more people who would like to have better bus service or some form of rapid transit serving Kennywood than for a new highway exit to be placed by the park.

Exactly.

There are an endless number of reasons why the Mon-Fayette is a useless highway, but if we listed all of them we would be here until the T gets extended to the airport.