Pitt vs. Temple - International Business/Foreign Language

wgmcp101
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:02:03 +0000

I currently live in San Francisco. City-wide, the public transportation is not nearly as good in Pittsburgh as it is in San Francisco or Philadelphia. The city of Pittsburgh is also much smaller than those two, but it has a lot of urban density and I think it is one of the best cities in the US for its size.

However, public transportation it isn’t bad where Pitt is located. The primary source of public transportation from the neighborhood Pitt sits in (called Oakland) are the bus lines. Fortunately, most of the major bus lines go through Pitt’s campus, and you can get downtown (which is about two miles away) with hardly any wait as buses go by quite often. The major advantage is that all public transportation in the city is free to all Pitt students. There is no issue getting from Oakland to downtown or surrounding neighborhoods like Shadyside, and as long as the Pittsburgh transportation authority keeps the shuttle running to the airport, that is pretty easy to catch as well as it is a direct shuttle (with no transfers needed).

Most Pitt students live on campus or in the neighborhood directly around campus. Carnegie Mellon and Carlow University are also there. It is a pretty compact student/academic neighborhood that is very walkable and the universities also run their own shuttles to various points on their campuses.

I have a friend who works in the Center for Latin American Studies office at Pitt. I can try to connect anyone that is interested in learning more about that particular center. PM me if interested.