City presents ideas for a protected bike lane in the Cultural District
The city is considering creation of bicycles-only lanes on Penn Avenue through Downtown Pittsburgh, including the Cultural District.
The lanes would occupy the eastbound side of Penn Avenue, replacing the existing traffic lane from Stanwix Street to 11th Street. Eastbound vehicles would be rerouted to Fort Duquesne Boulevard and Liberty Avenue, which run parallel to Penn. Westbound traffic and on-street parking would not change.
The plan was outlined at a meeting Tuesday with business interests, bicyclists and others, hosted by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.
“This is still very much conceptual, very much in the information gathering stage,” said Jeremy Waldrup, the partnership’s president and CEO.
Read the full article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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