What is "shiras"

Shiras is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is located on a small island platform in the middle of Broadway Avenue, through which The T travels along former streetcar tracks. The station serves a densely populated residential area through which bus service is limited because of the hilly terrain.

Shiras may refer to:

• George Shiras, Jr. (1832–1924), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• George Shiras III (1859–1942), U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania
• Leif Shiras (born 1959), former professional tennis player from the United States and now a tennis journalist
• Oliver Perry Shiras (1833–1916), the first United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
• Wilmar H. Shiras (1908–1990), American science fiction author, who also wrote under the name Jane Howes