{"id":288593,"date":"2026-09-18T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T01:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:44:22","slug":"pittsburgh-regional-transit-to-buy-102-new-buses-if-board-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288593\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Regional Transit to buy 102 new buses, if board approves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh Regional Transit may be making a big purchase soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A PRT spokesperson confirmed to Channel 11 Thursday that the authority plans to buy 102 new buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That includes six 60-foot electric buses, 40 35-foot diesel buses and 56 60-foot diesel buses manufactured by New Flyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The purchase would reportedly cost $94.1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s pending full approval from the board, which is set to meet Sept. 25, the spokesperson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If approved, the new buses should start servicing riders next summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Regional Transit may be making a big purchase soon. A PRT spokesperson confirmed to Channel 11 Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[119955,114764,119956,73,75,74,2187],"class_list":["post-288593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-diesel-buses","tag-electric-buses","tag-new-flyer","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\/288593","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=288593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}