Pedaling North

On a given day, as many as 800 bicyclists ride on the North Side’s river trails. But according to a neighborhood group, only a small fraction of those cyclists will ever venture into the actual communities above the waterfront.

The group, the North Side Bike/Ped Committee, hopes to change that.

“We are literally feet away [from the trails],” says committee member Stephanie Miller. “But there is a huge disconnect between the bike trails below” and the neighborhoods above.

Although bike lanes and sharrows have increased throughout Pittsburgh as a means of promoting bike use and safety, the North Side has no such bicycle infrastructure. Miller says the committee, comprising representatives from several North Side community groups, was created about a year-and-a-half ago to improve connectivity from the trails, and to create safe routes for bicyclists already living in the neighborhoods.

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