WorkLink

Heritage WorkLink helps riders get to jobs, job training and work-related support services. We provide fixed route van transportation to the residents, workers and students of the Mon Valley and connect our riders to bus routes operated by Port Authority of Allegheny County. We currently serve the communities of East Pittsburgh, Turtle Creek, North Versailles, McKeesport, Port Vue, Glassport, Clairton and the Jefferson Regional Medical Center and CCAC South Campus.

Heritage WorkLink was created to assist isolated communities by helping people get and keep good jobs by reducing geographic limitations. Some of the areas we serve have such narrow streets, steep hills, and tight turns that they are not accessible to buses and many of our riders don’t own cars. Our safe and reliable transportation is vital to our riders.

For more information on how we are funded, please see our background page.

Angela Brown’s Story

“I will be honest with you, if it weren’t for the WorkLink, I do not know how I would get back home at the end of the day.” For Angela Brown, a rider since 2008, Heritage WorkLink is a lifeline in the community. She uses the van to get from Clairton to McKeesport and to connect to Port Authority routes. Angela provides in home care for people in the Mon Valley region. WorkLink helps her to get to her client’s houses. If WorkLink did not exist Angela would have no alternative besides walking or taking an expensive jitney service.

She has seen the huge positive impact that Heritage WorkLink has had on the community. From the beginning she noticed how many people of different race, gender and age depend on Heritage WorkLink. She depends on the service to get her to work and back home, because without it she would have no other way.

Transportation Bulletin Board

Cuts to ACCESS ADA Service

Since 1979, Port Authority has made ACCESS service available throughout Allegheny County, border to border, including destinations outside the county within 1.5 miles. The ADA only requires transit authorities like Port Authority to offer ACCESS type service as a “compliment” to regular bus service, but only in those places and at those times when bus service is available. Under this proposed service reduction, ACCESS ADA service will only be provided to locations within ¾ mile of an operating Port Authority bus or light rail route. This will leave close to ½ of the geographic area of Allegheny County unserved for ADA eligible ACCESS riders. If these cuts impact you, be heard during Port Authority’s Public Comment Period www.PortAuthority.org.

Share Your Story With WorkLink

We would love to hear how WorkLink has impacted your life. Do you use it to get to work or school? Take your child to childcare? Get to interviews? We want to hear your story! Please call 412-351-2200 or e-mail WorkLink@HeritageServes.org

Port Authority Service Cuts

Port Authority has announced massive service cuts for September 2012. Many Routes in the Mon Valley will be impacted, including connections with WorkLink. In the Mon Valley, Port Authority routes 60, 68, P68, 69, P69 and P76 are being eliminated. Visit www.portauthority.org for more information about the cuts. If you are being impacted, please call WorkLink to discuss your transportation options.

Service Changes Effective Jan 3, 2012

Heritage WorkLink is making minor service changes. The changes include- The van will serve Dynamo Way before and after Prospect Terrace on every trip in each direction to facilitate connections with Port Authority routes. The short trips (shaded on the timetable) have trip time adjustments. A stop has been added at the Marathon Station near the Mansfield bridge and the stop at 3rd/Waddell has been moved to Miller/St Clair