What can you expect with the arrival of the G20 in Pittsburgh ?

[benptt3]

i don't understand the point of protesting a meeting where nothing gets accomplished anyway

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

Right, it can't be that much more of a traffic nightmare than for a Steelers game (or a Superbowl parade) or a big show at Mellon Arena or the 4th of July fireworks.

You're underestimating how much traffic congestion the G20 will bring. My company arranged for all employees to work from home the week of the G20.

[ditchdigger]

I would be willing to bet that the authorities would like everyone to stay home for those days. If there's even an infinitesimal chance of things between protestors and the police becoming, shall we say, heated, the fewer innocent bystanders, the better.

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle
Right, it can't be that much more of a traffic nightmare than for a Steelers game (or a Superbowl parade) or a big show at Mellon Arena or the 4th of July fireworks.

Maybe anarchists don't obey traffic lights?

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by gaelgirl

I just can't understand why Pittsburgh was chosen.

For all the above given reasons, plus it has to be somewhere!

Originally Posted by Hopes

You're underestimating how much traffic congestion the G20 will bring. My company arranged for all employees to work from home the week of the G20.

That's what many companies did in Denver during the DNC. It worked well. I know, it's two different things, but it's an honor to be chosen. We didn't get many protesters. Maybe you won't, either. Perhaps it's gone out of style.

[ctoocheck]

On KDKA last evening, in not so many words, they said its going to be a traffic nightmare with all these world leaders and dignitaries and their motorcades coming through on the parkways and such.

I hope traffic nightmare is not the case... I don't know what dumbass dignitary would ever decide to use Squirrel Hill tunnels if they're planning on getting to the meeting on time

Also, I mean...the 10th Street bypass (prob the most likely street to be closed for sure) floods and is closed regularly. As the convention center is sort of at the corner of downtown I hope street closures shouldn't be such a problem -unless they close Liberty.

I thought for a hot second, "maybe motorcades will use the East Busway." I'm sure they would much enjoy hopping on at Wilkinsburg or Swissvale.

[ditchdigger]

This is one of those things that we're really not going to know until it actually plays out. The best that you're going to do here is to be able to make some attempt at an educated guess, but you need to consider all the possibilities in order to do that. As I quoted from the City Paper, in the other G-20 thread here:

The meeting was sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center, a local peace and social-justice organization whose Anti-War Committee hopes to hold a major permitted march on Sept. 25. The Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project, a collective of local anarchists and anti-authoritarians, is scheduling its own march for 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 24.

Without knowing any further details than that (cause I'm too lazy to go researching for anything more current or specific), I can imagine that traffic in town will be negatively impacted somehow, somewhere....