Home › News ›

Study Searches For Solutions To Pittsburgh's Transit Problems

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
26 August 2001 - 5:00am

An 18-month study looks at Pittsburgh's transit problems from a regional perspective.

"Lexington, Ky., Portland, Ore., and Toronto [are] urban areas that have been tying transportation policy to land-use policy as a way to control urban sprawl and provide attractive alternatives to private vehicles. In the Pittsburgh region, the programs envisioned include bike trails, light-rail and busway expansion, low-speed and high-speed maglev, "land-banking" of abandoned railroad rights of way, sharing railroad tracks with freight trains, and making greater use of waterways."

Full Story: Public, planners brainstorm about Pittsburgh region's transit problems
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 23, 2001
»
Bookmark and Share
“
New Suburbanism is not a new design paradigm that seeks to compete with or discredit principles of New Urbanism. Instead, our perspective represents a broad-based attempt to find the best, most practical ways to develop and redevelop suburban communities.
”