Buses Home
LAST CALL: Reserve your ticket now to catch a bus home for Thanksgiving break
Follow the steps below to reserve your tickets!
How Buses Home works;
- Our free bus departs Pitt-Bradford on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 10:30 AM.
- Our free bus arrives at the Pittsburgh campus by 3 PM.
- Suppose your last stop is Pittsburgh, great! If you want to connect to another city, keep reading!
- Buses to 13 other cities depart from the Pittsburgh campus that same day at 4:15 PM for a fee (locations and prices are listed here).
- For a round-trip, buses will pick up in those 13 cities and bring you back to the Pittsburgh campus on Sunday, November 30, 2025, with an arrival time of 6:00 PM. Note: You must also purchase a ticket for these connecting buses via the Transportation Office at the Pittsburgh campus.*
- *Once you reserve your spot on XP for the Bradford to Pittsburgh bus and indicate your final destination, we send your information to the Pittsburgh campus. They will hold a seat on your connecting bus until reservations close this Friday, November 14, and they will reach out to you to finalize payment for that ticket.
- Our free bus departs the Pittsburgh campus at 6:30 PM (or when all other buses have arrived) on Sunday, November 30.
- Our free bus returns to Pitt-Bradford around 10:30 PM on Sunday, November 30.
How to Reserve
Complete these steps in order!
- Reserve your ticket for the free bus from Pitt-Bradford to Pittsburgh. You can select a round trip, a one-way trip to Pittsburgh, or a one-way trip back to Bradford.
- If you’re traveling beyond Pittsburgh, please ensure you provide your phone number and a non-Pittsburgh email address when you reserve your ticket on XP. You will be contacted by the Buses Home program staff at the Pittsburgh campus via phone or email to finalize your ticket to your destination and process payment for that ticket.
- Pick up your bus pass in the Office of Student Affairs, Commons 220, starting at 9 AM on Monday, November 17, and no later than 5 PM on Wednesday, November 19, or you will forfeit your seat.
Location
Be where you need to be – when you need to be there!
Pickup Location at Pitt-Bradford: Frame-Westerberg Commons Circle
Friday, November 21, 2025
Check-in: 10 AM at Commons Café
Depart: 10:30 AM
Drop-off Location in Pittsburgh: 4390 Bigelow Boulevard
Pickup Location in Pittsburgh: 4390 Bigelow Boulevard
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Check-in: 5:30 PM – 6 PM with Student Leader
Depart: 6:30 PM (or when all other buses have arrived)
Details
- Seats are limited. There are 55 seats available for the trips between Bradford and Pittsburgh, and reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. At this time, fewer than 10 seats remain open.
- If you reserve a seat on the Bradford to Pittsburgh bus and do not show up for either direction, you will be charged $20 per direction. This will be charged to your University account. If you have reserved a seat but no longer intend to use it, please notify us at upb.studentaffairs@pitt.edu so that we can make that seat available to someone else.
- When purchasing a ticket to your final destination city, be sure to select only the 4:15 PM Friday departure. Do not purchase a 2 PM departure bus ticket – these are for Pittsburgh students only. You will not arrive in Pittsburgh in time to board those buses.
- You may reserve one-way tickets on the Pitt-Bradford bus and the buses to other cities. If applicable, please indicate one-way on the Pitt-Bradford reservation form and the direction of travel (one-way from Pitt-Bradford or one-way to Pitt-Bradford).