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Pittsburgh Regional Transit to use federal grant to study cable car transit

June 26, 2022 / 10:19 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

PRT using grant to study cable cars

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh Regional Transit will use a federal grant to look into the usage of suspended cable cars.

Those care would link certain city neighborhoods.

According to a report from our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, they'll use a $600,000 grant to study a new transit corridor linking the Strip District, Hill District, Oakland, Hazelwood, and the Carrick-Overbrook neighborhoods.

The proposed corridor could include an incline or suspended cable cars between the Strip District and Oakland.

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.