What public, private, and charter schools could lose transit access?

Reductions to PRT service could have a lasting and deeply disruptive impact on access to K–12 education throughout Allegheny County. Every day, families across the region rely on safe, reliable public transit to ensure their children can get to school, especially in households without access to a car or in communities where school bus service is limited or unavailable. When service is cut, that lifeline disappears.

PRT’s analysis shows that if proposed service reductions take effect, a significant number of schools would no longer be served by reasonable transit access, which is defined as a stop within a quarter-mile or a five-minute walk. This threshold already represents a minimum standard for accessibility, and even it does not account for critical factors like sidewalk conditions, lighting, or traffic safety. For many students, particularly in low-income and historically underserved neighborhoods, the loss of reliable transit could mean longer, more dangerous, or entirely unwalkable commutes.