Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials are marking the new zero-fare transit benefit being offered to 750 Downtown city employees.<\/p>\n
There will be tabling set up in different sections of the City-County building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to enroll city employees in the new PRTner Pass program.<\/p>\n
Monday at 10 a.m. at the Pittsburgh City-County building, Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor, County Executive Sara Innamorato, Pittsburgh Regional Transit CEO Katharine Kelleman and city councilwoman Barb Warwick will host a press conference announcing the open enrollment for the PRTner Pass Program.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Public Transit rolled the program out at the end of 2025. It enables the bulk purchase of transit fares for employers, developers and school districts to pay for passes for their constituencies at the deeply discounted rate of $28 per person monthly, according to Pittsburghers for Public Transit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city of Pittsburgh will be a flagship participant in PRT\u2019s discounted bulk transit fare program, supporting Pittsburgh municipal workers to take full advantage of the high-quality transit service and transit infrastructure investments that are available downtown,\u201d a release from Pittsburghers for Public Transit said.<\/p>\n
The goal of the program is to increase affordable transportation access for working people, to grow the region\u2019s transit ridership and local funding and to support the regions\u2019 workforce recruitment and retention, release from Pittsburghers for Public Transit said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials are marking the new zero-fare transit benefit being offered to 750 Downtown city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-258258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258258","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=258258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}