Category: Colin McNickle At Large

More fanciful folly from PRT

We don’t know whether to give Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) the 2025 Government Chutzpah Award or the 2025 Government Foppery Award. But it deserves at

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Greasing taxpayers & state secrets

Amid significant ballyhooing, not to mention likely inflated economic impact numbers, Nashville International Airport (BNA) this month bowed new and heavily taxpayer-subsidized direct flights to

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PIT punishes the handicapped

The optics are not good. And the reality is worse: In an apparent attempt to crack down on handicapped parking violators, Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)

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Same old Pirates lies

The Pittsburgh Pirates stage their home-opener today at PNC Park against the mighty New York Yankees and the new home-run delivering “torpedo” bats. It’s a

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Notes on the ‘ahem’ of things

Dateline Pittsburgh, March 31, 2030: Pittsburgh Public Schools yet again tabled consideration of a bricks-and-mortar right-sizing and realignment of its school buildings, citing a need

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Big Government whisperers persist

We’re not sure what it is ‘round this parts that with every breaking spring, the usual suspects for “regionalism” and the wearing of rose-colored-glasses sprout

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A few words from our readers…

A long-dedicated correspondent aims his sights on the long-running dysfunction that is Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). He shared with us a letter he fired off

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Weep not for PRT

Pittsburgh Regional Transit(PRT) announced last week that it will have to raise its base fares to among the highest in the nation and reduce service

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