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The Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway is a two-lane bus-only highway serving the city of Pittsburgh and many of its eastern neighborhoods and suburbs. It was named after Martin Luther King Jr. in recognition of the eastern portion of the route's serving many predominantly African-American neighborhoods, such as Wilkinsburg and East Liberty.
East Pittsburgh-Wilkinsburg Converted to bus and became 61A East Pittsburgh-Wilkinsburg on January 29, 1967. 65A: East Pittsburgh-Monroeville 65B: East Pittsburgh-Crescent Hill 65C: Braddock-Wilkinsburg Discontinued on September 7, 1970 and replaced by 65G rerouting and 68D extension. 65D: Braddock-Forest Hills-Braddock Hills
The main entrance to the bus station is at the base of the 165-foot-tall (50 m) glass tower at the corner of Liberty Avenue and 11th Street. [1] The center is located across the street from Pittsburgh Union Station which is served by two daily Amtrak trains and is the western terminus of the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit used a fare structure based on four main zones (1, 1A, and 2). The downtown area was an unnumbered Free Fare Zone , established in 1985 to encourage transit use in downtown and reduce stop "dwell" times (the amount of time a transit vehicle must remain stopped for passengers to board or alight).
Fort Pitt Bridge with Downtown Pittsburgh in the background. A large metropolitan area that is surrounded by rivers and hills, Pittsburgh has an infrastructure system that has been built out over the years to include roads, tunnels, bridges, railroads, inclines, bike paths, and stairways; however, the hills and rivers still form many barriers to transportation within the city.
The Port Authority of Allegheny County took over the Pittsburgh transit system, including Pittsburgh Railways and dozens of privately-owned bus companies, in 1964. [15] The Port Authority converted more trolley lines to buses, and by 1971, the only remaining trolleys were the Drake , Library , Castle Shannon , Mount Lebanon , and Arlington lines.
First Avenue station is a station on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. [4] The station is part of the light rail's Downtown Pittsburgh free zone, and passengers embarking here may travel for free to any of the other stations within the zone ( Steel Plaza , Wood Street , Gateway, North Side and Allegheny ).
The West Busway is a two-lane bus-only highway serving the western portions of the city of Pittsburgh and several western suburbs. The busway runs for 5.1 miles (8.2 km) from the southern shore of the Ohio River near Downtown Pittsburgh to Carnegie, [1] following former railroad right-of-way on the Panhandle Route.