Category: Mon-Fayette Expressway
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…
More Lanes = More Traffic
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by breen under Government, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Transportation |
An article in yesterday’s Post-Gazette asks, “Would toll lanes unclog Parkway East?” The answer is no. Fifty years of planning and traffic engineering has shown that more lanes equal more traffic. Much like the law of physics that says that liquids flow until pressures are equalized; traffic expands until roads are clogged. There are other…
Last Day to Vote on the PG’s MonFayette Poll
| February 11, 2008 | Posted by pghgal under Mon Valley, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Polls, Transportation |
As we mentioned last week – the Post-Gazette has an online poll about the MonFayette Expressway. Do you want a private-public partnership to pay half of the $3.6 billion cost of completing the Mon-Fayette Expressway? Click here to vote at the Post-Gazette.com The responses have shifted in the past few days A. Yes, the road…
VOTE! Post-Gazette Poll on the MonFayette Expressway
| February 4, 2008 | Posted by p2wp under Mon-Fayette Expressway |
Do you want a private-public partnership to pay half of the $3.6 billion cost of completing the Mon-Fayette Expressway? Click here to vote at the Post-Gazette.com – the poll is open from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11. Current Results: A. Yes, the road needs to be completed – 341 (55%) responses.unshift([1,341]); B. No, let the…
Got an extra $1.5 billion lying around somewhere?
| January 26, 2008 | Posted by andrea under Mon-Fayette Expressway, Politics, Rant, Take Action, Transportation, Turnpike |
Geeks like me who were following closely what the state was doing to solve our transportation funding crisis last year looked at Act 44 and saw a loose collection of half-assed solutions mixed in with a few new problems. Bond financing, tolling I-80, blah blah blah — not enough money to solve the real crisis,…
Old School thinking – Onorato’s A Fan of the MFX
| January 14, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Mon Valley, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |
Well it looks like the Regional Chamber Alliance’s email and meeting were successful because this was title of the article in the Trib: Onorato take lead for the county leg of the Mon-Fayette road “The Mon-Fayette will provide linkages and open up old industrial sites to jobs and commerce in the south, and its Squirrel…
Regional Chamber Alliance’s Stand on the Mon Fayette
| January 7, 2008 | Posted by pghgal under Government, Links, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Transportation, Turnpike |
This email from Howard Carpenter, of the Regional Chamber Alliance, speaks volumes on the position of the chamber alliance on the MonFayette. I had to read this twice, honestly I thought it was a joke at first. As one of the young people that Pittsburgh is trying to retain here – it absolutely saddens me…
Nine Mile Run Design Advisory Team Community Open House
| September 11, 2007 | Posted by p2wp under Events, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Transportation, Western PA |
The Nine Mile Run Design Advisory Team cordially invites you to attend a Community Open House being held for their section of the Mon/Fayette Expressway Project, PA Rte 51 to I-376. The Open House will highlight the progress of the project thus far as well as address local issues such as recreation and property impacts.…
cue Nero
| June 19, 2007 | Posted by andrea under Government, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pennsylvania, Transportation, Western PA |
Because I care about transportation funding in our fair commonwealth, I’ve been checking in with the transportation committee schedules in Harrisburg to see what kinds of proposals they’re debating. Anyone want to hazard a guess? Today the Senate Transportation Committee is considering 9 bills: SB646, SB857, SB972, HB363, HB781, HB840, HB892, HB1169 and HB1228. Only…
bass ackwards
| April 26, 2007 | Posted by andrea under Mon-Fayette Expressway, Rant, Western PA |
More details will be forthcoming in tomorrow’s Post Gazette, but meanwhile in the web edition today Joe Grata is reporting that the Turnpike Commission has upped their price estimate for the Pittsburgh leg of the Mon-Fayette, and that under the most optimistic circumstances construction wouldn’t be completed for another 10 years (even should the money…
Prospects for a County-wide Riverfront Park
| April 20, 2007 | Posted by april under Mon-Fayette Expressway, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning, Western PA |
I attended the Venture Outdoors-sponsored town hall meeting this evening on the proposal for a County-wide riverfront park, which has been championed by County Councilman Dave Fawcett, R-Oakmont. The proposal is now in the form of a bill, sponsored by Fawcett and Jim Burn D-Millvale. See the park map here. I love this idea, and…
the toll of roads on people
| April 10, 2007 | Posted by breen under Government, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
today’s PG offers two articles that provide perspective on how roads affect our lives. the first is an article by diana nelson jones on hazelwood. it tells the stories of people who have lived their lives in the neighborhood and those that are still trying to push through. most significant, i think, is the point…
tossing a hot potato over the allegheny
| February 14, 2007 | Posted by andrea under Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pittsburgh, Transportation |
How does that legend go – in which George Washington supposedly skipped a silver dollar over the Potomac? This morning’s article in the PG about the PA Senate’s resolution eschewing responsibility for any cost over-runs for the North Shore Connector reminded me of that — except here it’s not a measley $1 coin, it’s $15 million.…
Privatizing transportation
| December 14, 2006 | Posted by andrea under Government, Mon-Fayette Expressway, Pennsylvania, Rant, Transportation |
The Governor has announced he’s taking LOI’s from private firms who might be interested in leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike — and he’s set a deadline of December 22 for any potential takers to send their bona fides to his office. In theory, the Governor hopes to be able to present a qualified preliminary bid for…
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