Parkway WORSE (Pittsburgh, Portland, Penn: apartments, new house, neighborhood)

[norcider]

I-376 Parkway East – Fort Pitt Bridge to Edgewood/Swissvale
Construction plans are being developed on this estimated $18-20 million improvement project on I-376 (Parkway East) between the Fort Pitt Bridge and the Edgewood/Swissvale (Exit 77) interchange. Work includes milling and resurfacing, guiderail updates, ramp improvements, and minor bridge repairs. Project start and end dates are still being finalized; however, the work will occur in 2018.

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[Lost_In_Translation]

Originally Posted by norcider

I-376 Parkway East – Fort Pitt Bridge to Edgewood/Swissvale
Construction plans are being developed on this estimated $18-20 million improvement project on I-376 (Parkway East) between the Fort Pitt Bridge and the Edgewood/Swissvale (Exit 77) interchange. Work includes milling and resurfacing, guiderail updates, ramp improvements, and minor bridge repairs. Project start and end dates are still being finalized; however, the work will occur in 2018.

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Just a new overlay, not a complete replacement like Parkway West.

[Enough_Already]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

Because PA's income tax is a flat 3% and Ohio does a better job with a progressive income tax so that higher income people pay more (it maxes out at 5%). I'm glad you think this is a better idea, but it is certainly more fair than using the Turnpike revenues to substitute for taxes as a way of paying for other roads.

Or because Ohio is not a mismanaged as PA.

[Enough_Already]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

Good comment and right on the mark. I once read that widening roads and building more highways to "relieve congestion" is like an obese man getting another notch on his belt because it's become too tight.

This analogy is completely wrong. Government exists to serve the people not to control them.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by Enough_Already

This analogy is completely wrong. Government exists to serve the people not to control them.

People without cars or who don't like to be required to use cars for everything are people too.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by Enough_Already

Or because Ohio is not a mismanaged as PA.

As a former employee of the State of Ohio, I appreciate your compliment.

[Lost_In_Translation]

Originally Posted by Enough_Already

This analogy is completely wrong. Government exists to serve the people not to control them.

A city needs the appropriate infrastructure for its size, but I think 16 lane freeways just create more chaos because the choke points still exist. The key is to find more ways to move people around efficiently, using secondary roads and public transit as well and improve core infrastructure to encourage living closer to employment. Pittsburgh has done a very good job in the last 15 years in that realm given its limitations.

[bluecarebear]

Originally Posted by djfiler

Thankfully, millennials predominately share this philosophy. They don't want to waste their days commuting to and from work. Nor do they want to work in sterile office parks. Generally, they would prefer to see their tax dollars spent on transit than on highways.

The Pittsburgh traffic wouldn't be getting worse if this was true. The new census estimates should reflect growth in the outer suburbs and a decline in the city neighborhoods outside of the East End.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by Lost_In_Translation

A city needs the appropriate infrastructure for its size, but I think 16 lane freeways just create more chaos because the choke points still exist.

Christ, nobody's talking about 16-lane highways, just more than four. Six to eight would be perfect. In fact, six to eight would be normal for metropolitan areas of similar size.

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by bluecarebear

The Pittsburgh traffic wouldn't be getting worse if this was true. The new census estimates should reflect growth in the outer suburbs and a decline in the city neighborhoods outside of the East End.

I think the thought process about a new generation of Americans flocking to cities, going car-less, and all that, is a perceptible but not dominant trend. Sooner or later, when they have children, its off to the Hills (North or South, that is) for more attractive school districts.

For Pittsburgh, the East End resurgence is a success, but it's true that long term economic growth and population expansion, as it has been in several lifetimes, is out in the suburbs.

It is a startling difference in dealing with people out in the Fayettes and elsewhere, vs. the City. They are out there, raising happy kids, going to soccer games, and being all Mayberry. To me, it's like another world.