I’ve got some good news and some bad news this Transit Talk Tuesday.
The bad first: Pennsylvania still faces a transit funding cliff. For the fourth year in a row, lawmakers have blown past the deadline for an annual budget as negotiations continue, imperiling transit, foster care, school funding, and more. Closed-door wrangling over issues including cannabis and taxation of skill games continue. Even as new University Line bus stops opened downtown, Pittsburgh Regional Transit brass continued to warn of “irreversible” service cuts as transit users rallied to save the system. I’ve already said my piece about this unfortunate development (tl;dr FUND IT).
The good news? A better way to get to the airport may be staring us in the face…