Pittsburgh Light Rail

Pittsburgh Light Rail
A Blue Line train at First Avenue station, 2015
Overview
Owner	Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Locale	Pittsburgh
Transit type	Light rail
Number of stations	53[1]
Daily ridership	(weekdays, Q2 2024)[2]
Annual ridership	3,417,100 (2023)[3]
Website	www.rideprt.org
Operation
Began operation	1984; 40 years ago (1984)
Operator(s)	Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Technical
System length	26.2 mi (42.2 km)[1]
Track gauge	5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 650 V DC[4]
System map Show interactive map Legend Allegheny US 19 / PA 65 North Side I-279 Allegheny River Tunnel under Allegheny River Gateway Wood Street Penn Station occasional use Steel Plaza Panhandle Tunnel First Avenue I-376 / US 22 / US 30 (Penn Lincoln Parkway) Panhandle Bridge over Monongahela River Brown Line PA 837 West Carson Street Station Square Warrington Ave Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Arlington Ave Brown Line Tunnel car barn South Hills Junction Red Blue Silver Palm Garden Boggs Palm Garden trestle over US 19 Truck / PA 51 Dawn Morse Steps Traymore McKinley Park Pennant Bon Air Westfield Edgebrook Fallowfield viaduct Fallowfield Denise Hampshire PA 51 Saw Mill Run Blvd. Coast Ansonia Belasco South Bank Boustead Central Shiras Inglewood Neeld Glenbury Stevenson Paris Potomac McNeilly Kelton Spinning Wheels Dormont Junction Killarney Mt. Lebanon Tunnel under US 19 Truck Cooley Mt. Lebanon Linden Grove Poplar Memorial Hall Arlington Poplar Avenue Castle Shannon Park Overbrook Junction Willow Red Blue Silver Martin Villa St. Anne's Smith Road Washington Junction Blue Red Silver Casswell Mine 3 Highland Hillcrest Santa Barbara Lindermer Bethel Village Center Dorchester Lytle  47D  Mesta South Hills Village South Park South Hills Village Rail Center Munroe Bethel Church Latimer Fort Couch Sarah Brookside Boulevard Logan Brookside Farms King's School Walthers Beagle Drake Sandy Creek PA 88 Library Road West Library Hicks Pleasant Library Key Blue Line Former station Red Line Non-accessible station Silver Line Accessible station Former Brown Line Interchange station Two services Multiple services This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram

The Pittsburgh Light Rail (commonly known as The T) is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) light rail system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding suburbs. It operates as a deep-level subway in Downtown Pittsburgh, but runs mostly at-grade in the suburbs south of the city. The system is largely linear in a north-south direction, with one terminus near Pittsburgh's central business district and two termini in the South Hills. The system is owned and operated by Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

The T is one of the surviving first-generation streetcar systems in North America, with the oldest portions of the network dating back to 1903 and the Pittsburgh Railways.^[5] It is also one of only three light rail systems in the United States that continues to use the broad 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania Trolley Gauge on its lines instead of the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 3,417,100.