Or at the very least contact your local state representative. I don’t know if it will make enough of a difference or if you have tried, but at the very least you can make it clear that this project is not wanted.

That’s why you should try to get others in your community involved. By joining together, you have a better chance of fighting. A whole group or organization of people is stronger than one individual alone trying to make a difference.

Nothing is a done deal if you can get a good enough lawyer!

Fight tooth and nail against it for as long as you can. I hope you and some others in your neighborhood can join forces to at least try to put a stop to this project. If we can’t outright cancel it, maybe we can at least delay it a few more years by tying things up in litigation.

Good that we are in agreement there, that is why I am very critical of the project and made my sarcastic remark on this post. A lot of people’s lives are going to be disrupted and entire neighborhoods/towns will be destroyed if this highway is extended to Monroeville, and without the leg into Pittsburgh it will never be utilized enough to justify its existence. Thousands of people’s lives should not be disrupted so that a very small handful of suburbanites and exurbanites can have a shortcut to Monroeville.

Without the leg of the highway into the city, most of the potential traffic for the Mon-Fayette will not materialize, so your numbers are incredibly skewed. We are not talking about that cancelled leg, we never have been other than you repeatedly bringing it up for no reason. Find me a statistic that shows 40,000 cars will take a highway from Brownsville to Monroeville, which is slated to be built.

Says the guy who wants half of the South Hills ripped up for a highway. The T does serve a purpose for people living in those communities and the fact that it doesn’t run to more places is further justification to invest in expanding it. I’m sure most of us would agree that a rail extension to Oakland/the East End or up the Ohio Valley would be far more useful than a toll highway to nowhere.

The leg of the highway that would go to the city has been canceled for good. That is probably for the better. We do not need to tear out and destroy city neighborhoods so that suburbanites from the South Hills can have a faster drive into the city. I say that as a South Hills resident. Ride the T or some other form of public transportation instead if you don’t want to deal with the traffic. We don’t need to be building highways everywhere especially in this day and age. Unfortunately the Turnpike Commission is pushing full speed ahead with extending the Mon-Fayette to Monroeville despite there being few people who will utilize it and the Turnpike Commission themselves admitting the highway will never make enough in tolls to pay for itself.

Yes. There is no critical need for an express highway from Brownsville to Monroeville, especially when it is going to tear through so many communities. In a time where we are trying to be more environmentally conscious, building a new highway to nowhere that exclusively caters to automobiles is a huge waste of resources and taxpayer money, and is the absolute last thing we should be doing. Just for some context: nearly all of Port Authority’s long term expansion plans could be paid for with the money that is being used on the Mon-Fayette and Southern Beltway highways. I’d much rather see our money going to infrastructure that benefits the entire region and impacts millions of current and potential riders than unsustainable pet projects that will benefit a few thousand drivers on a good day.

Don’t worry, the Turnpike Commission will fight blight 1950’s style by plowing through these “undesirable” Mon Valley communities with a nice new highway in a few years! /s

I know the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has one of the old maps that was on the trains circa early 2000's displayed in the gift shop area. It isn't for sale but it's possible they have a scanned copy or something.

Found the Musk fanboy.

I can’t imagine it will be open very long with how Musk is running his own companies into the ground.

I’ve noticed a lot of people nowadays who drive big cars like that think they own the roads. It can seriously be scary when someone loses their shit on you like that for a very small mistake. Stay safe out there!

Was the asshole in either a lifted pickup or a sports car?

Ignore him. He stirs up drama for absolutely no reason on almost every thread.

If only.

*Republicans

Join the track/cross country team at your school.

Uhhh....you good?

Oh yeah, the 3 or 4 people that use it will be very happy!

Username checks out.

People wanted bike trails back then too. Look at what happened to most of the routes abandoned in the 80’s. Deregulation of railroads, blatantly oil/automobile-oriented politics and legislation, and short sightedness has also played a part.

It would be a better use of the space than your “cute” little bike trail to nowhere.

The very people who are pushing for these glorified vanity bike trails are the reason those trains don’t exist. But you’re too busy fat-shaming people to actually use your brain. Keep it up, your parents must be really proud.