Parkway East Plan Concerns Regent Square Leaders
Input is sought on a plan that could include increased traffic, pedestrian safety and negative business impacts on South Braddock Avenue, among other issues.
Leaders in the Regent Square community are letting their voices be heard about a proposed PennDOT plan for the Parkway East that includes metering or closing on-ramps during the morning and/or evening rush hours in the inner-ring communities. Elected officials have been meeting together and with PennDOT representatives. They are working on a one-voice, multi-front campaign to raise awareness of the complexities of this traffic mitigation plan and the negative impact they believe it will have on the communities. Of greatest impact to the immediate area would be the ramps on South Braddock in Regent Square and on Swissvale Avenue/Ardmore Boulevard. For more details, visit http://www.regentsquare-rsca.org/ParkwayRamps.htm. "The elected …
Sue T
10:42 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Jo Ellen is correct. Look at the PennDot presentation information on the RSCA website. This is being done to save four and a half minutes on the trip from Monroeville to downtown. Yet they didn't bother to study the impacts on Braddock, Forbes, Penn Ave, etc. So, by my estimates we are expected to incease our travel time by 20 or 39 minutes, so the people in the far eastern suburbs will save less… more ›