Transit Talk: YOMPA (Yes On My Penn Avenue) - Pittsburgh City Paper | News, Dining, Music, Best Of, Arts, Film The lawsuit halting work on the Penn Ave. bike lane extension seems based on misconceptions.

Colin with a point by point refutation of strip district business owners

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Yeah. It’s a realigned 7th street between WW and Broad St. You have to go in to the absurd virtual meeting room and watch a video to see it though.

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Here’s an actual image from a PennDOT proposal in south Philly where they want to put an interchange _above_ 95. Real Hot Wheels shit

Why are dems agreeing to any budget without transit? It just seems like we’re kicking the can two years down the road at which point it will once again be a crisis except with our transit agencies in an even worse place from having drawn from capital funds. Fight now while there’s breathing room

This is great to see. Would love to get Shady from 5th to Penn next.

The pharmacist at the CVS I tried at said to check back in a day or two and they’d probably have caught up with the new rules.

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🗣️ TAKE ACTION: Submit a comment to show support for the plan to connect Squirrel Hill and Greenfield with The Run and the Eliza Furnace Trail!

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Potentially GREAT news out of SPC’s Active Transportation Forum this morning. The redesign of the Squirrel Hill interchange COULD include protected bike/ped connections to both sides of the interchange and on to Greenfield and The Run. 1/2

The link above details that Abington’s cameras are not managed by the _Philadelphia_ Parking Authority

A map of Abington PA showing Old York Rd as PA 611.

Abington outside of Philly has them along Old York Rd which is PA 611.

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Red Light Cameras – The Philadelphia Parking Authority. Park With Us.

I haven’t seen any reporting to that and it’s not a general limitation of red light cameras in PA. Philly has multiple red light cameras set up at intersections of state routes.

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A map of Pittsburgh focused on CMU. It shows Forbes Ave in white with a pink outline through campus.

Legend for the previous map. It shows white with a pink outline represents “multi-lane highway”.

A different map of the same section of Forbes Ave. This map depicts the route in yellow, representing being part of Pittsburgh’s high injury network.

I would hope they’re not skipping state routes as a bunch of the high injury network is state routes. What PennDOT considers a “highway” is very different from an interstate highway. Forbes through CMU is a “multi-lane highway” and also on the high injury network.

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Crashes down, fatalities unchanged: Car crashes in Pittsburgh have decreased by nearly one-third since 2021, while fatal crashes have remained constant during that period. In 2024, Mayor Ed Gainey announced Vision Zero, an initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities. A bar chart of total car crashes by year: 2021: 2250 2022: 2187 2023: 1858 2024: 1534 A bar chart of fatal crashes by year: 2021: 20 2022: 25 2023: 20 2024: 21

Don’t know where 8 is coming from. More like 21. www.post-gazette.com/news/transpo...

why are we posting signs or giving ppl who are caught running red lights 60 days of freebies?? running red lights is illegal, everybody with a driver's license knows it's illegal, it's not less illegal or less dangerous if you think nobody is watching. what the fuck are we doing here

Transit Talk: Legalize the Idaho stop Letting cyclists roll stop signs when the intersection is clear codifies what many people already do.

LEGALIZE IT

Ban cars

A satellite view of a large triangular intersection with a fountain in the middle. One of the paths has been crudely scribbled out leaving a more orthogonal t-intersection.

You think turning this little part of S Whitfield between the library and the fountain is on any plan? Seems like you get a lot of nice real estate in front of a library and all you lose is like 4 parking spaces and a slip lane on a lightly traveled road. A crosswalk across Baum would be great too.

drivers will be like "how come cyclists are allowed to break traffic laws but I'm not???" and then proceed to break all the traffic laws 🚲🏙️

When I was looking at it, my impression was that they were making a secondary access road and separate lot from the lots available off the turnpike. So I think you can at least visit the trail without going on the turnpike 🤷

RFK Jr. is in Philly?

A beautiful, detailed, and informative map of the SEPTA concourse in Center City Philadelphia. The underground concourse spans a huge number of city blocks connecting multiple L, B, T, Regional Rail, and PATCO stations.

@septa-social.bsky.social this is a beautiful concourse map. You should put it on the website. You should also put this and all the others maps in the app.

A beautiful, detailed, and informative map of the SEPTA concourse in Center City Philadelphia. The underground concourse spans a huge number of city blocks connecting multiple L, B, T, Regional Rail, and PATCO stations.

@septa-social.bsky.social this is a beautiful concourse map. You should put it on the website. You should also put this and all the others maps in the app.

More of this please!

I always felt this would be the simpler path to bus lane enforcement rather than having to pilot with vendors offering an “””ai solution”””

They’re working on some bike improvements in Fishtown. Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re doing what would be most effective: changing street directions and adding traffic diverters or modal filters to discourage through-traffic.

Cycling has helped me notice urban streets and rural roads that "don't go anywhere" (that cars want to go, or there's a faster route for cars). These "naturally" low-car routes are ripe for improvement to make them even more ped and cycle friendly. A few examples in this thread, mostly Philly:

groups of adults and children some on bikes gathered on a street

groups of adults and children, some on bikes, gathered on a street

a street closed off with bright orange barriers and a sign that says “School Street, road closed to cars”. groups of kids, adults, and bicycles gathered in the street behind the barriers

Philly’s first school street just dropped! @coachbalto.bsky.social @5thsq.org

Another issue that is magnified by traveling with children is that it’s always such a mad scramble to get seats together. The family boarding procedure is very hit or miss.

Same with PHL. Having a travel-serving store closed on Sunday is a huge waste

Laryngitis interfering with me yelling at cars