Mt. Lebanon (PAT Station)
Mt. Lebanon is a station on the Red Line (Pittsburgh), Red Line of Pittsburgh Regional Transit's Pittsburgh Light Rail, light rail system, serving Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1987, as of 2005 it serves an average of up to 2,000 passengers a day through both rail and bus connections. History Prior to the construction of the Pittsburgh Light Rail system, the area around the present-day Mt. Lebanon station was served by the Clearview Loop station, located a short distance from the present-day station on Alfred Road on a balloon loop that served as the terminus for the 38 Mt. Lebanon trolley service operated by Pittsburgh Railways. On May 26, 1963, the 38 Mt. Lebanon was replaced by the 42/38 Mt. Lebanon via Beechview service which extended the previous 42 Dormont trolley service to Mt. Lebanon from Dormont Junction station, Dormont Junction. Planning for the present-day Mt. Lebanon station began in 1979, alongside planning for the Mt. Lebanon Tunnel. As construction of t ...
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Pittsburgh Light Rail (logo)
The Pittsburgh Light Rail (commonly known as The T) is a 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. It is also one of only three light rail systems in the United States that continues to use the broad Pennsylvania Trolley Gauge on its lines instead of the . In , the system had a ridership of . History Overview In the early 1960s, Pittsburgh had the largest surviving streetcar system in the United States, with the privately owned Pittsburgh ...
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