Pittsburgh Regional Transit making cuts that will affect several bus routes

PITTSBURGH — Starting Nov. 20, Pittsburgh Regional Transit is reducing service hours which will affect several bus routes, and riders are frustrated.

“We’ve had enough bus cuts already. There are way too many cuts. Buses are unreliable as it is,” said Karen Miller of Polish Hill.

PRT has been cutting service incrementally over the past several months. It’s all because of its worker shortages in the transit operator and maintenance departments.

The company plans on reducing service hours by 2 percent or 488 hours per week. Right now, it’s 46 positions short to keep up with its service requirements

That’ll impact 21 bus routes as well as the Blue Line light-rail route.

The impacted bus routes include:

• 2
• 12
• 14
• 20
• 21
• 53L
• 56
• 61D
• 67
• 69
• 71ABD
• 74
• 79
• 89
• P10
• Y1
• Y46
• Y47
• Y49

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