Bomb threat closes Fort Pitt, Liberty, Squirrel Hill tunnels

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 05-31-2007 | Unknown

[RS_Rider]

A bomb threat prompted authorities to shut down the Fort Pitt, Liberty and Squirrel Hill tunnels for nearly an hour this evening during rush hour.

A threat was called in to Allegheny County's 911 sometime around 5:30 p.m. and the tunnels were closed at 5:40 p.m. The Squirrel Hill tunnel reopened to inbound traffic at 6:20 p.m. and the outbound side reopened a few minutes later.

[RightWhale]

How’s the Monorail coming?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Holy cow! That must have been a mess. Good thing I take the backroads home. Might have to turn on the local news tonight.

[dakine]

Some guy spending too much time at the bar, needed excuse for the ol’ lady....

[RS_Rider]

We’re into tunnels now. Boston raised the taxpayer abuse bar to a new level that must be challenged by the ‘burg.... Watch!

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

I heard we had a subway dahn ‘ere sumwheres.

Imagine that.

[Petronski]

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force had nothing to do with this.

[RightWhale]

In the Flood of ‘39 the Mon met the Allegheny in the middle of downtown. No subway there. Maybe somewhere, though, could be those Carnegies flinging money around.

[RS_Rider]

“Gateway to the North Side: Pittsburgh’s planned transit tunnel extension will connect the Golden Triangle with the North Shore and bring innovation to western Pennsylvania”

link to article

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BFW/is_4_98/ai_86385627

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Pittsburgh is a GREAT city but, man, I wouldn’t want to have been there today.

Semper Fi,

[spectre]

Thanks, martin. A couple of relatives called me with this news..I hope this is the last threat!!

sw

[RS_Rider]

Arts Festival starts tomorrow

[Ciexyz]

It rained buckets today in Pittsburgh around 430 PM, that means the Arts Festival is starting, tee hee. It rains every year during the Arts Festival.

[RayBob]

I got caught in that rain walking from my office to the Arena parking lot. The umbrella was useless. I was soaked head to toe. Then the traffic... I never take the parkway out of town (I live in the east)as I don’t want to deal with the tunnels. Great planning created this lovely three lanes down to two through the tunnels bottleneck. I took the back roads (went through lower Hill, SoHo, down Second Ave to Hazelwood, through Greenfield, Squirrel Hill, Swissvale, and got on the parkway on the other side. I get out to Golden Mile Highway from downtown during rush hour in less than 35 minutes on average. Not bad.

[Ciexyz]

That's the back way that my friend in Squirrel Hill takes to avoid the parkway. Me, I don't mind driving the parkway at rush hour because it's better than Route 51 which really crawls at rush hour (a route I travelled for years.)

[infidel29]

Police reports said the threat was phoned in from a pay phone on Carson St. and that the caller had an accent...

First thought:
"'Ere's a bomb in wunna dem tunnels, so's yinz better close 'em all dahn 'til yinz can figger aht which one it is 'n'at... GO STILLERZ!"