Buses Home
Reserve your ticket now to catch a bus home for the 2026-2027 University Breaks
Follow the steps below to reserve your tickets!
How Buses Home Works;
- Pitt-Bradford provides a free bus to Pittsburgh so you can get home for the Thanksgiving, Semester and Spring breaks. Reserve your spot on the bus via Experience Pitt or stop by the Office for Student Engagement, 2nd floor Commons.
- Our free bus leaves Pitt-Bradford at noon on Friday, 11/20 and arrives at the Pittsburgh campus in the afternoon (4390 Bigelow Boulevard), leaving time to get on the 5:15pm connecting buses to other cities leaving Pittsburgh.
- If you only need to go as far as Pittsburgh- great, you’re there. However, if you want to connect to another city, keep reading!
- Panther Central, Mobility Services, provides buses to other cities for an additional fee. These buses depart from the Pittsburgh campus (University Place, near Nordenberg Hall) on the same day. You can find a list of all the cities they service, fees and schedules. Bradford students should only reserve tickets for the 5:15pm connecting cities buses. These tickets are not free.
- You must purchase your own connecting cities bus ticket, One-Way or Round-Trip, ahead of time for these connecting buses via Panther Central, Mobility Services by calling them directly at 412-624-8801 and paying over the phone. Call for reservation deadlines. Do not use the mobile app listed on their Buses-Home site.
- For round trip ticket holders, connecting cities buses will pick you back up where they dropped you off and return you to the Pittsburgh campus. You should arrive back in Pittsburgh by 6 PM in time to get on our free bus back to Pitt-Bradford.
- Our free bus bus loads up at 6pm at 4390 Bigelow Boulevard and departs at 6:30 PM, or when all other buses have arrived from the cities. It will return to Pitt-Bradford around 10:30 PM. If you do not show up on time, the bus will leave without you.
Additional Information
Departure Dates from Pitt-Bradford: Fridays: Nov. 20th, Dec. 11th & March 5th
Pickup Location at Pitt-Bradford: Frame-Westerberg Commons Circle
Departure Dates from Pittsburgh: Sundays: Nov. 26th, January 10th & March 14th
Pickup Location in Pittsburgh: 4390 Bigelow Boulevard
Contact John Haley at jrh361@pitt.edu or call 315-256-5690 for more information. 