Pittsburgh Transit Board Reverses Proposed 35% Service Cuts

cut and 9 percent fare hike, but state leaders warn “neither the reversal nor capital funding are a long-term solution to the commonwealth’s transportation problems.”

As Christina Lengyel explains in The Center Square, “The House has passed several different funding proposals to resolve the situation, none of which have been taken up by the Senate. The upper chamber did pass a bill that would have used capital funding, but it was dead on arrival in the House, where Democrats said that taking money dedicated to other infrastructure improvement projects deepens the deficit without offering any recurring revenue and does nothing to help the rest of the state.”

PRT will be allowed to borrow from the state’s capital fund to maintain service, but state officials warn the fix is only temporary.