Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The North Shore riverfront trail has been closed at the construction site of the $450 million Majestic Star casino.
Bob Oltmanns, a spokesman for casino owner Don Barden, said the trail would reopen and there would be full access to it once the casino opens in 2009.
City transportation planner Sidney Kaikai said he is working with Bike Pittsburgh and Friends of the Riverfront to try to devise a safe detour for trail users around the casino site during construction.
First published on January 8, 2008 at 9:33 am
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3 Comments
why oh why does Pittsburgh need a casino? what an ugly, senseless edition to the city.
Closing the trail for an entire year seems a bit excessive. Think if the private sector operated this way… every time a cleaning person vacuumed a hallway they shut down the entire floor of a building…
Reminds me when they were building the convention center how unnecessarily and stupidly long they closed the 10th street bypass.