Posted on 09/28/2021 9:54:10 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Picture Pittsburgh 50 years from now with these transportation changes: a terminal in a central location to handle a hyperloop system, vehicles for vertical takeoffs and landings, and high-speed trains; aerial trams linking neighborhoods; and new bridges crossing the Monongahela River at Hazelwood for motorized vehicles and at the former Wabash rail bridge piers for bikes and pedestrians.
Those might sound like something from a science fiction novel, but they are among the ideas the city says it must consider in a 50-year Mobility Vision Plan released Thursday by Mayor Bill Peduto and Karina Ricks, director of the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure.
“It may be tempting to dismiss the 2070 Mobility Vision Plan as fantastical or audacious,” Ms. Ricks said during a news conference in the Strip District, “but that would be a mistake. Fifty years is a long time, and a lot will change. Look back at how much has changed over the last 50.
“It is critical we have a plan to guide us.”
The plan has been under development for more than three years and is designed to dovetail with a Downtown Mobility Plan released in May by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, a regional long-range plan unveiled last year by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and Port Authority's 25-year NEXTransit plan expected to be approved Friday.
The city’s document “brings all of those plans together,” said Ms. Ricks, who’s leaving the city after Friday for a job with the Federal Transit Administration.
A key need in the future could be a multimodal terminal somewhere near the Golden Triangle, which could host stations for potential hyperloop, high-speed train, vertical vehicles and aerial tram systems.
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he only worthwhile thing is all of Pittsburg, The Church Brew Works
A southern beltway is being built around greater Pittsburgh, but it’s under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Authority, so any part that is already open has tolls.
Great Brewery. And it’s PittsburgH.... Pittsburg is in Kansas.
Right.
Unless it’s a beltway that goes completely around the city and it’s not tolled; it’s basically for local traffic and useless.
Most cities (even tiny metropolitan areas like Louisville, KY) already have two beltways, not just one (an inner and an outer). And the beltways are not tolled.
Yes; the short-sightedness of the vaunted Democrat Mayor, Davey Lawrence. He literally turned down the funding to build the beltways and yes, fought it tooth and nail.
He screwed the Pittsburgh area for 50+ years already and probably at least another 50 to come.
“Is there a chance the track might bend? Not on your life my Hindu friend.”
Couple of things about it, the former confessional is now the liquor cabinet.
I asked an older gent who was the Pizza maker if he felt awkward working like this in an old retired Catholic Church? He said for a couple days BUT, he said the neighborhood use to be residential and went commercial. Over 100 people work there now, folks who weren’t working before. He said his is PROUD.
Pittsburgh has reported a loss of population for the seventh year in a row
This boondoggle won't fix what ails Pittsburgh.
Yes. Been there quite a few times. Always try to stop when I’m in Town...
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