Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pittsburgh

Four Mayors on Why They’re Building Out Their Cities’ Bike Networks

By Payton Chung | Sep 9, 2014 | 10 Comments

A growing number of mayors want to make big strides on bike policy, and they need smart advocates to help them do it. Mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, Jennifer Selin of Morgantown, and A.C. Wharton of Memphis addressed the opening session at the 2014 Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place conference, now […]

Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage

By Michael Andersen | Aug 28, 2014 | 17 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: Its streets have been there since 1784. “In Pittsburgh, we have too many cars chasing too […]

Turning a Suburban Retail Bus Stop Into a Place People Want to Go

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 11, 2014 | 9 Comments

This post is part of a series featuring stories and research that will be presented at the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference September 8-11 in Pittsburgh. Last week, Pittsburgh got its first suburban bus stop makeover. And the results were beautiful. The new IKEA “super-stop” lies in a shopping center along an interstate highway, surrounded by surface parking, between a TGI Fridays […]

Bikes, Cars, and People Co-Exist on Pittsburgh’s Shared Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 3, 2014 | 10 Comments

Summer is finally here, but livable streets advocates already can’t wait for September to come. The biennial Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference is taking place in Pittsburgh, a city that’s shedding its “Rust Belt” image and emerging as a leader in progressive street design with the help of a new mayor who’s committed to biking, […]

Anthony Foxx Kicks Off Nationwide Project for Better Bike Lanes

By Michael Andersen | Apr 29, 2014 | 3 Comments

Staring down a highway trust fund that he described as “teetering toward insolvency” by August or September, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday that better bike infrastructure projects are part of the solution. “When you have a swelling population like the USA has and will have for the next 35 years, one of the […]

Green Lane Project Picks Six New Cities to Make Big Progress on Bikeways

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2014 | No Comments

More than 100 cities applied for the second round of the Green Lane Project, the program that helps cities build better bike infrastructure, including protected lanes. People for Bikes, which runs the program, announced its selections for round two today: Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. “The selected cities have ambitious goals and a vision for […]

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