Pittsburgh Regional Transit to deploy plows and dump trucks to help get service back to normal

It's been four days since the snow stopped falling. City crews are still trying to clear streets – but so is Pittsburgh Regional Transit, so that buses can get through.

PRT last gave us an update just past 8 a.m. Thursday. It says just two bus routes are experiencing issues and delays because of the road conditions.

One of those issues affects the 11 Fineview bus in the Fineview neighborhood.

"It just – just couldn't make it up the hills up here," Mark McClelland of Fineview said, referring to something he'd seen earlier this week.

If you look at McClelland's street and around it, too, you can see why. While McClelland says a few plows have come through Catoma St., the roads are still slippery near and around him.

"The bus was stuck down at the bottom of Carrie St. and couldn't get them out of there," McClelland said.

The other route that's still affected is the 83 Webster bus, where there are issues with the conditions on Terrace and Allequippa streets.

PRT said all other buses are back to normal. Last night, there were still seven total routes affected by the road conditions.    

"You've got to keep up with all the snow that's falling, and there's nothing else they can really do," McClelland said.

PRT says it's putting out plows and trucks today to try to clear snow. They're focusing on nine neighborhoods – parts of Bon Air, Brookline, the Hill District, the North Side, Greenfield, Homewood, Lincoln Park, Polish Hill, and Fineview -- mostly where buses have had trouble getting to stops.

Crews will also be trying to clear bus stops downtown on Thursday. Pittsburgh Regional Transit said that it could extend to Friday as well if needed.