As the NFL Draft approaches, read about a vision one architect has for the Roberto Clemente Bridge connecting the North Shore to Downtown — close the bridge to traffic permanently and turn it into a linear park. buff.ly/H3uOYfR
anyway, ban cars
Love the part where he says “don’t walk like this” and then demonstrates various ways that a small child might walk. Good to know children aren’t meant to cross the street
As a child, I loved the book Aha! Gotcha. It’s full of mathematical riddles and paradoxes but has a presentation that’s very accessible to children. It has a two column layout with cartoons that cover the basic concept and text that goes into more detail.
I once emailed customer service asking what the suggested bike route to the zoo was and the response was basically a shrug.
Modern fare collection, who wouldn've thought? But seriously, this will speed up boarding substantially, making service faster and more dependable. And the "ambassadors" to help people understand the system when it first launches are a great touch.
That sidewalks are a public good is why they should be publicly maintained. We don’t ask folks to plow or fill potholes on the road in front of their house. Why do we expect them to clear and repair the sidewalk?
📍 Homewood South - PRT is planning a new station on the East Busway (Brushton Station) and they're looking for your input!
Visit the @cityofpittsburgh.bsky.social's Engage page to drop a pin on the map and make a suggestion for this future bus station: engage.pittsburghpa.gov/brushton-tod...
For anyone in and around Pittsburgh, please sign this petition to bring the T back to Allentown permanently. The neighborhood deserves it. c.org/T9rSyqDrYj
Protests are always during toddler nap time haha
I like the new Pittsburgh airport terminal in general but this is a bad bus stop — furthest end of the curb, minimal shelter from wind, no good way to wait indoors and watch for the bus. Bus stops should be a part of the design, not an afterthought.
🚘The car industry promised freedom. Instead, it gave us traffic, pollution, and massively deadly roads. So, now what?
Join BikePGH + @thewaroncars.bsky.social hosts Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon for a discussion of their book, Life After Cars, live in #Pittsburgh Jan 29
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Protected bike lanes on Fifth Ave?
The Allegheny County Safety Action Plan has some big ideas. Check it out & leave comments here: engagekh.mysocialpinpoint.com/alleghenycountyactionpla...
Reminds me of this sign from Philly
It felt a bit silly to begin a story about highway removal with half a dozen highways they don’t want to remove
Imagine the traffic calamity if those two cars had to take a different route
Colin with a point by point refutation of strip district business owners
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Yeah. It’s a realigned 7th street between WW and Broad St. You have to go in to the absurd virtual meeting room and watch a video to see it though.
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Here’s an actual image from a PennDOT proposal in south Philly where they want to put an interchange _above_ 95. Real Hot Wheels shit
Why are dems agreeing to any budget without transit? It just seems like we’re kicking the can two years down the road at which point it will once again be a crisis except with our transit agencies in an even worse place from having drawn from capital funds. Fight now while there’s breathing room
This is great to see. Would love to get Shady from 5th to Penn next.
The pharmacist at the CVS I tried at said to check back in a day or two and they’d probably have caught up with the new rules.
🗣️ TAKE ACTION: Submit a comment to show support for the plan to connect Squirrel Hill and Greenfield with The Run and the Eliza Furnace Trail!
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Potentially GREAT news out of SPC’s Active Transportation Forum this morning. The redesign of the Squirrel Hill interchange COULD include protected bike/ped connections to both sides of the interchange and on to Greenfield and The Run. 1/2
The link above details that Abington’s cameras are not managed by the _Philadelphia_ Parking Authority
A map of Abington PA showing Old York Rd as PA 611.
Abington outside of Philly has them along Old York Rd which is PA 611.
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I haven’t seen any reporting to that and it’s not a general limitation of red light cameras in PA. Philly has multiple red light cameras set up at intersections of state routes.
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A map of Pittsburgh focused on CMU. It shows Forbes Ave in white with a pink outline through campus.
Legend for the previous map. It shows white with a pink outline represents “multi-lane highway”.
A different map of the same section of Forbes Ave. This map depicts the route in yellow, representing being part of Pittsburgh’s high injury network.
I would hope they’re not skipping state routes as a bunch of the high injury network is state routes. What PennDOT considers a “highway” is very different from an interstate highway. Forbes through CMU is a “multi-lane highway” and also on the high injury network.
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Crashes down, fatalities unchanged: Car crashes in Pittsburgh have decreased by nearly one-third since 2021, while fatal crashes have remained constant during that period. In 2024, Mayor Ed Gainey announced Vision Zero, an initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities. A bar chart of total car crashes by year: 2021: 2250 2022: 2187 2023: 1858 2024: 1534 A bar chart of fatal crashes by year: 2021: 20 2022: 25 2023: 20 2024: 21
Don’t know where 8 is coming from. More like 21. www.post-gazette.com/news/transpo...
