About this Project

This project will study opportunities to establish a new transit corridor that would connect Pittsburgh’s Strip District, Hill District, Oakland, and Hazelwood neighborhoods. A future phase is expected to study extending this corridor across the Monongahela River to the Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods. Connections between these communities are currently limited due to cliffs, valleys, and rivers, but the potential for physical, economic, and equitable mobility connections presents a compelling case for a dedicated transit corridor that would link communities in need with opportunity areas and other transit connections.

Update

June 2025: PRT has completed a Phase I Existing Conditions analysis to understand the existing communities, built environment, and potential transportation needs of residents along the corridor the corridor.

PRT will use these findings to inform a detailed feasibility study of transportation options for the corridor; including service modes, alignments, and station locations for a river-to-river connection. PRT anticipates starting technical analyses by the end of 2025 with public engagement in early- to mid-2026.

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Project Goals

  • Improve Access

    • Increase access to social and economic opportunities.
    • Improve transit access to jobs, education, healthcare, and other destinations with a priority focus on historically disadvantaged communities.

  • Meaningful Engagement

    • Engage a diverse range of corridor residents and stakeholders, while prioritizing those who rely on transit the most.
    • Build community ownership of the project to ensure successful implementation, addresses transit needs, and support community development.

  • Limit Displacement

    • Implement strategies to limit displacement risk from the start of the project helps to ensure that current residents and business will benefit from new transit investment in the corridor.

Project Study Corridor

A diagram depicting the proposed Corridor G project study area, showing connections to the Strip District, Hill District, Oakland, and Hazelwood within Pittsburgh.

This project addresses the following values from PRT’s long-range transportation plan, NEXTransit, adopted in 2021.

  • Accessible: infrastructure is fully available in every way to those with specific needs, such as physical or mental disabilities, those traveling with infants or small children, and those traveling with groceries or other goods.
  • Affordable: this project makes it easier for those of all means, including the underemployed and unemployed populations, to utilize transit without needing to sacrifice other life sustaining activity, such as buying food, medicine or heating, to do so.
  • Equitable: the project not only ensures the fair provision of services to those with limited means or higher risk, but affirmatively acts to better the services offered to these groups in an effort to combat historical and environmental imbalances in the community.
  • Sustainable: the project enhances the health of communities and the natural environment through its design and operations with regard to energy use, water use, raw material use, land use, and waste production.

The feasibility study is funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Areas of Persistent Poverty Program with additional funds from PRT’s Capital Budget.

A full list of partners will be identified closer to the project start date but will include the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.

Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Phase I (Existing Conditions Evaluation)

    PRT completed the Phase I evaluation for Corridor G in April 2025.

  • Timeline item 2 - incomplete

    Phase II (Corridor Feasibility Study)

    PRT anticipates launching the Phase II feasibility analysis in late-2025.