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===Regional mass transit=== {{main|Pittsburgh Light Rail|Port Authority of Allegheny County#Bus rapid transit}} [[File:Steel Plaza Subway Station.JPG|thumb|[[Steel Plaza (PAT station)|Steel Plaza subway station]]]] [[Port Authority of Allegheny County|Pittsburgh Regional Transit]], formerly known as the Port Authority of Allegheny County, is the region's mass transit system. While serving only a portion of the Pittsburgh area, the nation's 20th-largest metropolitan area, it is the 11th-largest transit agency in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/4968949-74/pittsburgh-cities-among |title=Pittsburgh ranked eighth among large cities for commuting without cars |work=TribLIVE.com |access-date=June 11, 2015}}</ref> Pittsburgh Regional Transit runs a network of intracity and intercity bus routes, the [[Monongahela Incline]] [[Funicular]] railway (more commonly known as an "incline") on Mount Washington, a [[Pittsburgh Light Rail|light rail]] system that runs mostly above-ground in the suburbs and underground as a subway in the city, and one of the nation's largest [[bus rapid transit|busway]] systems.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ridership/riderep/documents/07q1bus.pdf |work=American Public Transportation Association |title=Largest Transit Agencies|access-date=July 6, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220849/http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ridership/riderep/documents/07q1bus.pdf|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> Pittsburgh Regional Transit owns the [[Duquesne Incline]] but it is operated by a non-profit preservation trust,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.duquesneincline.org/ |title=Duquesne Incline, historic cable car railway serving commuters and tourists since 1877, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |publisher=Incline.pghfree.net |date=October 14, 2008 |access-date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> but accepts Pittsburgh Regional Transit passes and charges PRT fares. The Bus System lines are [[List of bus routes in Pittsburgh|labeled by number and letter]]. These are the largest portion of Pittsburgh Regional Transit and serve on streets and designated busways. Buses serve most of the county, extending as far as [[Pittsburgh International Airport]], [[Monroeville, Pennsylvania|Monroeville]], [[McCandless, Pennsylvania|McCandless]], and the borders of [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Westmoreland County]] and [[Beaver County, Pennsylvania]]. Meanwhile, [[Pittsburgh Light Rail|the light rail system]] (commonly known as the "T") runs along both new tracks and those refurbished from the streetcar era. The light rail runs from [[Acrisure Stadium]] to [[South Hills Village]] and [[Library, Pennsylvania|Library]], taking commuters through one of two routes: one which serves [[Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania|Castle Shannon]], [[Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Mt. Lebanon]], and [[Beechview (Pittsburgh)|Beechview]], and the other is an express line using railways through [[Overbrook (Pittsburgh)|Overbrook]].
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