Next HUGE transportation project (Erie, West View: camp, living in, cost)

[PIT2MAD]

Cranberry residents pleased Freedom Road bridge will remain open | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

New Freedom Road bridge in Cranberry will alleviate traffic and help prepare for the future widening of the turnpike in that area.

No word yet if this structure will accommodate bike lanes but a sidewalk will be a part of the plan.

[erieguy]

One step closer to that HOV lane out here.

[armourereric]

Originally Posted by erieguy

One step closer to that HOV lane out here.

This is the very first bridge on the turnpike west of the US 19/I-79 exit. There will be no HOV lanes, nor will they every really need them there.

As for the Monroeville to Irwin work, there still is no word on what improvements will be made to the 376/22 exit.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by armourereric

This is the very first bridge on the turnpike west of the US 19/I-79 exit. There will be no HOV lanes, nor will they every really need them there.

As for the Monroeville to Irwin work, there still is no word on what improvements will be made to the 376/22 exit.

We'll have an HOV lane to da 'burgh someday muphere.

[BigPizzaHutFan]

Originally Posted by erieguy

We'll have an HOV lane to da 'burgh someday muphere.

Right now, the entire country has barely over half the population of just the city of Pittsburgh. There's no need for a HOV lane.

Population may grow to the point that it would be useful. At that point in time taxes will have gone up due to an increasing population density and need for funding, and everyone who moved there for low taxes will have gone to the new "hot" area of development. Same as it ever was.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by BigPizzaHutFan

Right now, the entire country has barely over half the population of just the city of Pittsburgh. There's no need for a HOV lane.

Population may grow to the point that it would be useful. At that point in time taxes will have gone up due to an increasing population density and need for funding, and everyone who moved there for low taxes will have gone to the new "hot" area of development. Same as it ever was.

Don't tell anyone, but taxes are so low across the line that we wouldn't mind paying more muphere.

[PIT2MAD]

I'm not really a fan of Cranberry, but if an HOV lane is feasible anywhere it is that corridor. You could run it past the 79/279 split through the median past Wexford and up to the Cranberry exit. There simply isn't room on the east and west Parkways where it is needed the most. Those corridors should see an increase in public transit and biking options but the logical next step for the north is to extend the HOV lane.

Maybe it doesn't benefit the city but PennDOT serves more than just the city and I think it's a project that will ultimately be in the works within the next 10-15 years.

[Blackbeauty212]

I will bet the farm, you'd see the HOV turned into a Busway long long long long before its ever extended to Cranberry ..... Hell extending the T has a better chance in that corridor, and we know what the chances are for that happening in this current political environment. LOL!

[Paul2421]

Originally Posted by erieguy

Don't tell anyone, but taxes are so low across the line that we wouldn't mind paying more muphere.

This word annoys me more than any city/suburb thread ever could.

[BigPizzaHutFan]

Originally Posted by PIT2MAD

I'm not really a fan of Cranberry, but if an HOV lane is feasible anywhere it is that corridor. You could run it past the 79/279 split through the median past Wexford and up to the Cranberry exit. There simply isn't room on the east and west Parkways where it is needed the most. Those corridors should see an increase in public transit and biking options but the logical next step for the north is to extend the HOV lane.

Maybe it doesn't benefit the city but PennDOT serves more than just the city and I think it's a project that will ultimately be in the works within the next 10-15 years.

It's not going to happen. No one lives there. It'd be like running an HOV lane to Charleroi.