By Bob Karlovits, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, August 19, 2011

Larry Murdock says too many hours on the Parkway East made him want to hit the trail.

He became part of a growing number of people who see the bike and pedestrian routes networking the city as a reason to move near them.

Taking the bus to work also gave him a good bit of time to read and figure out whether he could make the move to Washington’s Landing, just up the Allegheny River from Downtown. “When I figured out we could, that was it,” he says.

Scott Bricker, executive director of the Bike-PGH advocacy group, says he receives inquiries from people moving into the area about bike routes to various areas.

Liz Keller and her husband, Liam Cooney, passed up moving to Morningside or Polish Hill for a Lawrenceville house because of its close proximity to a trail and easy bike ride to the North Side.

Reed Agnew moved his intellectual-design firm to a spot along a trail in the South Side. The trail has become a part of his firm’s “corporate culture.”

Bicycling or walking to work, shop or to entertainment venues has become a way of life for those living near trails or bikeways. Before work or after, the trails are frequented with walkers carrying their briefcases to the office or bicyclists with packs bearing a change of clothes.

John Valentine, president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association and consultant for the Urban Redevelopment Authority, is a resident of Gateway Towers. He says he is on his bike three or four times a week, not only for recreation, but also to run errands.

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