{"id":210202,"date":"2026-06-04T04:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:24:47","slug":"pittsburgh-regional-transit-starting-to-install-new-readyfare-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210202\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Regional Transit starting to install new ReadyFare machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Regional Transit has started to install its ReadyFare vending machines as the agency prepares to roll out its new fare payment system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PRT said it&#8217;s working to roll out its new ReadyFare system and has started to install the new machine at some of its light-rail stations.<\/p>\n<p>The new machines recently were installed at PRT&#8217;s Gateway station in Downtown Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kdka-pittsburgh-regional-transit-ready-fare-gateway.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"kdka-pittsburgh-regional-transit-ready-fare-gateway.jpg \" height=\"321\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pittsburgh Regional Transit has begun installing new ReadyFare machines at stations throughout the agency&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>                Pittsburgh Regional Transit<\/p>\n<p>PRT said that as it prepares to roll out the new system, current ConnectCard holders will receive a card in the mail with instructions on how to request a ReadyFare card.<\/p>\n<p>The new ReadyFare cards will be able to be purchased at the new machines for $1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PRT said that riders will be able to transfer any balances they have on a ConnectCard to the new ReadyFare cards using an online balance tranbsfer forn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Regional Transit has started to install its ReadyFare vending machines as the agency prepares to roll out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,2187],"class_list":["post-210202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}