Category: Transportation
Help BikePGH deliver 1,000 hand-written letters to the Mayor!
| February 15, 2011 | Posted by p2wp under Blogs, Transportation |
From the BikePGH blog and newsletter… In 2010, the City of Pittsburgh installed about 5 miles of bike lanes and sharrows, mostly in East End neighborhoods. These lanes were a welcome addition to the emerging city-wide bike lane network, and showed that the City was serious when, upon receiving the “Bronze Bike-friendly Community” status, Mayor Ravenstahl proclaimed that there…
EVENT – Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Public Forum
| September 15, 2010 | Posted by p2wp under Events, Transportation |
Image via Wikipedia Sustainable Pittsburgh in collaboration with Pittsburgh BRT Forum Collaborators Monday, September 20; 8:00 am – 4:00 pm; Duquesne University – Power Center Ballroom, 1015 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA To register send full contact information to: info@sustainablepittsburgh.org (SPACE IS LIMITED.) http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/3ELinks/08_26_10%203E%20Links.html#article2 No fee to attend.
Bike the Vote
| May 18, 2009 | Posted by P2pac under 2009 Primary Election, Pittsburgh, Public Health, Public Safety, Transportation |
Better late than never, on the eve of the primary I just wanted to call everyone’s attention to BikePGH’s Bike the Vote questionnaire BikePgh asked each of the Mayoral candidates to discuss the status quo with respect to making Pittsburgh as bike friendly as possible, and asked them as well to what each of them…
A little research on PittsurghPothole.com
| March 15, 2009 | Posted by Seenster under 2009 Primary Election, Blogs, Transportation |
Image via Wikipedia After reading Lady Elaine’s post about potholes I started thinking more about whether the pothole website was motivated by the upcoming election or if this was just part of an ongoing effort to improve communications with city residents. I read committeegrrl’s post last week about potholes and my first reaction was that…
Ask Onorato: Cyber Town Hall Meetings for Allegheny County
| February 11, 2009 | Posted by p2wp under Allegheny-County, city-county-consolidation, Get Involved, Government, Issues, Transportation, voting |
According to Pop City, Dan Onorato will hold the second in a series of cyber town hall meetings tomorrow, in which constituents can ask direct questions of the County Executive and receive answers via streaming video: During the first cyber meeting, Onorato addressed hard-hitting questions on why property assessments have increased, the need for better…
Who is benefits from leasing or selling the parking garages?
| January 27, 2009 | Posted by insider under Community Development, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
Image by UtopianLibrary via Flickr Mayor Luke Ravenstahl‘s idea to lease the city’s parking garages (more here) has generated quite a bit of buzz in Pittsburgh and beyond. The article from the PG was also picked up by Harvard’s Kennedy School here and on the blogs Milwaukee Talkie and Planetizen. This idea has also been…
Bailing Out the Big Three and the Mon Fayette Expressway
| December 3, 2008 | Posted by insider under Mon Valley, Mon-Fayette Expressway, National, Transportation |
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeI was just reading the latest email from Michael Moore about bailing out the big three automakers – I like that he offers an alternative to the bailout, I don’t know if it is the right alternative but it is helpful to see some alternative ideas discussed (I am including…
What is the purpose of public transit?
| September 24, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Government, Issues, Jobs, Pittsburgh, Politics, Poverty, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning, Western PA |
Again, there’s a really interesting conversation about transit going on over at Nullspace: http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/2008/09/transit-tuesday-metrics-to-be-proud-of.html Chris B. deconstructs some of the “facts” touted in a recent Forbes.com report and P-G article about Pittsburgh being in the top 5 commuter-friendly regions. He points out that the figures that put us in the top 5 are ridership numbers…
Allegheny Conference— Spreading Misinformation about Transit???
| September 11, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Community Development, Government, Issues, Jobs, Labor, Transportation, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Western PA |
In the Post-Gazette today, attorney Joseph Pass responds directly to Ken Zapinski of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development’s management-slanted editorial from labor day weekend. Don’t punish transit workers Perhaps local corporations should make ‘concessions’ I read with interest the rantings of Ken Zapinski of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development titled, “A Time for…
Real Talk on Transit
| August 27, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Government, Pittsburgh, Transportation |
The burghosphere’s favorite [transit] wonk, Chris Briem has a great post today on Nullspace with some very interesting analysis about the numbers that the Port Authority persistently puts out about its drivers’ wages. Check it out: http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/ Also– from Save Our Transit: We will be picketing the Port Authority as well as Dan Onorato in…
The Cost of Public Transit
| August 12, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Issues, Pittsburgh, Transportation |
Residents of Allegheny County can no longer take our public transit system for granted. Over the last several years, bus-riders have had to learn to live with ever-increasing fares and ever-decreasing service. Neither our state legislature nor our county government (both bodies of government have fiscal responsibility to fund transit) have shown the political will…
Pittsburgh Wiki: A Collaborative Approach to Policy-making
| August 1, 2008 | Posted by breen under Issues, Pittsburgh, Transportation |
This new online tool allows citizens to contribute ideas and information to an interactive plan for Pittsburgh’s future. The current topic of the wiki is transportation. Please visit Pittsburgh Wiki and add your $0.02. The transportation wiki will be available for contributions until October 24, 2008. At that time, it will be closed and put…
Tool includes transportation costs in defining housing affordability
| July 27, 2008 | Posted by april under Community Development, Environment, Events, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
A timely topic, as energy becomes a sharper issue for the American public and we watch changes in consumer behavior hash out against a backdrop of slow-to-change and often contradictory public policy. Will there be any long-term impact on where people choose to live? Well, this index is a project of The Urban Markets Initiative…
Discussion on regional transportation solutions
| June 25, 2008 | Posted by april under Events, Transportation |
CityLIVE! Series Getting There… from Here: Transportation Solutions for Our Region Speaker: Sanjeev Shah, Steven Bland, Chelsa Wagner New Hazlett Theater July 24, 2008 6:30 p.m. Is the auto the most convenient and efficient way to move people around our region? Can new technologies and policies help unite the region and contribute to our urban…
Public Meeting: Penn Avenue Corridor Phasing Plan
| March 11, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Community Development, Pennsylvania, Transportation, Urban Planning |
Public Meeting: Penn Avenue Corridor Phasing Plan Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – 6pm Saint Lawrence O’Toole Activity Building Penn Ave and North Atlantic More detail: http://groups.google.com/group/pennavepgh/browse_thread/thread/ef6f6b39d0eea384 Time: 6:00PM – Sign In 6:30PM – Presentation 7:00PM – Group Breakout Discussions The City of Pittsburgh, in cooperation with the PA Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration,…
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