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Capt_Reynolds t1_irn4hcz wrote

Wish they'd do something similar along Allegheny River Boulevard. Even a basic bike path would be great.

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DefinitelyLevi t1_irn97ml wrote

I feel so shitty for the bikers risking their lives trying to ride along ARB lol

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IveNeverHunted t1_irpjft4 wrote

Holy moly. Got driven home from a party last weekend and a biker was riding down ARB at 4 AM. I could not believe it and feared for that person's life. I don't think they had lights on the bike or anything.

Dude literally had a death wish.

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SidFarkus47 t1_irnpeky wrote

Even Butler Street above 57th is rough to ride on, and there it’s plenty wide enough to have bike lanes. I wish we’d at least connect 57th to the Zoo where there are lanes leading to highland park.

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burritoace t1_irqw4zk wrote

It's a PennDOT road after 62nd, so much harder to improve

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username-1787 t1_irrvlps wrote

PennDOT's infrastructure plan is basically to kill as many cyclists and pedestrians as possible

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SidFarkus47 t1_irw063r wrote

A bike lane from 57th to Fleming Bridge would at least be something. Does it being PennDot mean the state would have to approve/pay for it I guess?

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burritoace t1_irwcmdq wrote

Yea and PennDOT in general seems much less interested in these projects than the city

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glitchgirl555 t1_irntjga wrote

And Ohio River Boulevard. I can actually hear a train on it right now through my window? Why can't I take a train to the city? Or ride my bike along a path next to the train tracks?

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Kynykya4211 t1_iroe335 wrote

My mom told us stories of taking the train from Rochester in Beaver County down into Pittsburgh, when she was a child. IIRC it was like 5 cents a ticket (1940-50’s).

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NSlocal t1_irr0yyf wrote

There used to be commuter traffic on those tracks. There were stations all along the river, there's a street in Avalon that runs right to the tracks.

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hineybush t1_iroekgx wrote

there are plans to build a similar park along the riverfront in Sharpsburg and Etna and then connect the allegheny trail up to Aspinwall. I'm not sure if they would take it all the way to the Oakmont bridge but that would be awesome.

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rogerfeinstein t1_irpbryn wrote

Yeah having went from Oakmont to the Strip via the ARB I was terrified the entire time. I had to ask my dad to come get me and the bike in his truck and drive me back because I didn't want to ride back on the ARB.

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PittsburghChris t1_irph94c wrote

The road on the north side of the river from the Hulton Bridge to Blawnox is wide enough (though without any protective barriers) for cyclists to share the way. But then you have to transition to Freeport Rd and everything falls apart. There is potential - Papercraft Ave to Chapel Harbor Drive to ... somehow behind the Water Treatment Plant to the Aspinwall River Trail. Then all the way downtown or catch the new bridge path across the river and up Washington Blvd to Negley Run. Someday it would be cool if the bus way would share a protected lane with the bikes. #dreaming

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rogerfeinstein t1_irpi18i wrote

I just posted on this thread that I do sometimes use Freeport but it's also got it's issues.

Most of the time now we will toss the bikes into my wife's Honda Odyssey and then park it at the Washington Blvd Bike Track and then go up Negley and into town. Not ideal as we are taking up a parking space others could use and it requires the use of a car.

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