Monongahela serves as transportation hub

How do you get to Monongahela? The choice is easy - by bus, car or boat. Monongahela continues to be a hub for transportation, with bus service on a daily basis to destinations in the mid-Mon Valley or into Pittsburgh.

While the familiar chug-chug has slowed on the railroad and the lines are used more by industry, the tracks that traverse the lower portion of Monongahela, winding along the riverbank, are still used frequently.

Aside from public transportation, the city is served by good arterial highways and secondary roads that provide ready access to markets and sources of supply throughout the country.

Interstates 70 and 79 are a short distance from the area. These routes provide north-south service and connect with the Pennsylvania Turnpike with its east-west direction. State Routes 51, 88 and 837 provide alternate north-south service to Pittsburgh.

In addition, the Mon/Fayette Expressway will open the highway system even more, providing a limited-access highway to Pittsburgh.

Looking skyward, the Pittsburgh International Airport is about an hour from the Monongahela area. Locally, two smaller airports - the Finleyville Airport and Westmoreland County Airport at Rostraver - serve the needs of the public. Both handle smaller planes and provide hangar and tie-down facilities

Onto the water, the 129-mile Monongahela River is one of the busiest industrial arteries in the world, with annual tonnages of over 30 million. The river provides low cost, year-round water transportation with direct access to the 9,000-mile inland waterways system reaching major markets of the South and Midwest, Great Lakes ports, the St. Lawrence Seaway System, the Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic coastal ports. A navigational channel is maintained from the mouth of the Monongahela in Pittsburgh to Fairmont WV. Found along the shore of the Monongahela, locally, are riverboat barge lines, marinas and boat launches.