The Federal Transit Administration celebrated the awarding of nearly $150 million in grant funding to Pittsburgh Regional Transit on Tuesday for the build-out of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, which is on track to get a construction start date this fall…

PRT CEO Katharine Kelleman announced plans to refer to this new BRT service going forward as the “University Line” given the route’s proximity to downtown’s Point Park University, Uptown’s Duquesne University and Oakland’s Carlow University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Buses will be branded with “PRTX” to signify a BRT-based route…

FTA Deputy Administrator Veronica Vanterpool announced the grant award during a press conference hosted by PRT at the American Public Transportation Association’s Rail Conference, which is taking place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh.