Pittsburgh Bike Share offers 500 bikes from 50 stations throughout the city, using the Nextbike group systems. The center of the city is compact and walkable, and there are over 20 miles of traffic-free bicycle paths along all three rivers. The Duquesne Incline, first opened to the public in May, 1877, is operated separately, but accepts Port Authority passes. They also operate the Monongahela Incline funicular railway on Mount Washington. Pittsburgh has a small but efficient light rail suburban transit system, ( “The T” Blue and Red lines), with a "Free Fare Zone" between the six northern/ Downtown station also an impressive network of buses to get you around town, both operated by the Port Authority. Together they create a continuous bike and running trail, 325 miles long, between Pittsburgh and Washington DC. The Great Allegheny Passage cuts through Allegheny Mountain country to join with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath in the Potomac Valley. Intercity bus services are provided by Greyhound from their station at 55 Eleventh Street (Grant & Liberty Avenues), and MegaBus with service from beneath the David L Lawrence Convention Center. Major lines lead to Philadelphia and Washington DC, with connections to Eastern Seaboard cities north and south and to Cleveland, with connections north into Canada, or west-bound through Chicago. The city has Amtrak intercity rail service at Pennsylvania Station (aka Union Station) at the Grant and Liberty Avenue/ 11th St intersection. Limos, taxi cabs and vans can also whisk you downtown - see the airport website for more info. If a tranfer from Downtown is required, you must buy that ($1 extra) at the same time. The Port Authority bus number 28X, the Airport Flyer, costs $2.75 for a trip into Downtown via the West Busway, also serving Oakland. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, is 14 miles west of downtown. Pittsburgh Filmmakers nurtures all forms of visual art, and screens a wide variety of classic, indie and foreign films at 3 art-house cinemas in downtown Pittsburgh. Other cultural institutions include Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, home to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Carnegie Museums, including the Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and the Andy Warhol Museum. Music and dance-based performances of "ninja-like intensity" may be seen at Attack Theatre, in the Strip District. The Cultural District is home to these, and many theater productions at venues including the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, the City Theatre, the Pittsburg Musical Theater, and the Pittsburg Public Theatre. Wealthy businessmen, the likes of Carnegie and Mellon, helped to create rich art and cultural institutions such as the Pittsburgh Opera and the Pittsburgh Ballet. The gay community is thriving, too, drawing guys from three surrounding states. In 2012, National Geographic's Traveler magazine called Pittsburgh one of the best worldwide travel destinations, citing "a natural setting that rivals Lisbon and San Francisco, a wealth of fine art and architecture, and a quirky sense of humor." From the first wave of Scottish-Irish immigration in the mid-18th century, Pittsburgh has made a tradition of welcoming newcomers. Modern and cosmopolitan, Pittsburgh pulses with 21st-century energy. Pittsburgh might not be filled with the trendy clubs of Queer as Folk, or the post-modern strip bars of Flashdance, (both of which featured storylines set in Pittsburgh), but there’s still plenty to do in this steel town on a Saturday night.
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