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Are you a licensed Pennsylvania driver? If so, PennDOT wants to know what you think about highway safety in PA. So go here and take their survey if you’d like to have a voice in setting priorities for future highway projects.

The Allegheny County Transit Council, an all-volunteer organization, has formed to represent Port Authority Transit (PAT) riders in the wake of the most recent transit budget shortfall. The Port Authority of Allegheny County needs about $50 million to avoid another fare increase and major service cuts. The Pennsylvania Legislature had planned to fund transit with a [...]

From the CEOs for Cities blog (Councilman Peduto has been pushing for massive investment in infrastructure, specifically in the form of high speed rail, for years.): The Urban Land Institute, with Ernst and Young, has released a new report on infrastructure called “Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative.” Here is the imperative in a nutshell: …America’s future [...]

The PG describes the repair process (‘Mon Incline repair to begin today’) for the Mon Incline beginning today. It will be operating again in time to celebrate its 140th birthday on May 28. I’m going to bring it a piece of cake. I didn’t realize how much I relied on it until it wasn’t an option.

We here at 15211 make mistakes and it’s important to us to a) let you know as quickly as possible and b) apologize. In our haste to distribute information about the Mon Incline’s most recent breakdown, we attributed it to a computer glitch and cited an article in the Tribune-Review. Well it turns out that [...]

UPDATE at 2PM:   The Mon Incline will be closed until further notice.  Shuttle service will be provided between the upper and lower stations while the incline isn’t operating. According to an article in the Tribune-Review, this outage is being attributed to a glitch in the 15-year old computer system that runs the incline.  Sources at PAT [...]

Typically us Mount Washtonians don’t have to worry about these 3 Rivers and their crazy floods. That being said, Teresa Smith’s office wanted to get out the word about some local Flood Evacuation Procedures. Below you’ll find .pdf files that break down the evacuation procedures for different areas of flood prone areas in Pittsburgh. Beck’s [...]

This might not be 100% Mt. Washington related but being that it’s at the bottom of our beautiful mountain I thought everyone should know about it. From the Post Gazette: The “hole in the wall” at the West End Circle is scheduled to open to northbound traffic Tuesday, another milestone in PennDOT’s $52.6 million project [...]

Not sure where you all live, but our street still hasn’t been touched by a plow or piece of salt. I guess it’s considered tertiary so I’m thinking we’re looking at March until we get some help digging out. Anyway, I didn’t realize that this has been the snowiest February on record. According to the PG, [...]

UPDATE: The Post Gazette wrote an article about this, it’s on the front page as of right now here. Interesting quote from the article: Rob Kaczorowski, city public works director, said the slide occurred on the upper part of the road, just below the Grandview Avenue intersection. “The area was not part of the major [...]