About 750 city of Pittsburgh employees who work Downtown will receive free bus passes as an added employee benefit next year.

City Council on Tuesday approved the city’s participation in Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s PRTner Pass program that allows employers, apartment building owners and other distinct groups to buy sharply discounted bus passes for everyone in the group.

The group can either give the passes to members or charge no more than what they pay for them, $28 for a 31-day pass that sells for $97.50.

The city is by far the largest of four groups that have committed to the program to this point, PRT spokesman Adam Brandolph said. The city worked closely with PRT officials to define a group that would qualify for the program and will launch it as a pilot next year and monitor it

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