I don't understand why Pittsburghers routinely put up with the idiocy that is our public transportation system. Port Authority of Allegheny County is public transportation with massive, severe, permanent brain damage. Unreliable, buses routinely don't come at all during heavy commuting times (like when you're trying to get to work on time), many of the drivers are assholes, the fare doubled in a decade and the service was cut in half. The county refuses to fund it. Getting on and off is confusing. When to pay is confusing. The schedules are hard to read. The service isn't frequent enough. The subway system only goes to one neighborhood from downtown. This is horrible and it's one of the main things keeping Pittsburgh from being as great a city as it can be. Call center people are sometimes rude and mostly unresponsive. What else? The buses smell like urine. Sucks, sucks, sucks. I live 3 miles from downtown and I commute by walking every day, to and from, because Port Authority of Allegheny County buses suck that bad.