{"id":102393,"date":"2026-02-01T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102393\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:38:07","slug":"east-liberty-residents-voice-concerns-as-roads-remain-unplowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102393\/","title":{"rendered":"East Liberty residents voice concerns as roads remain unplowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSeveral streets in Pittsburgh\u2019s East Liberty neighborhood are virtually untouched nearly a week after a massive winter storm. Stephanie Jordan lives on the corner of Paulson Avenue and Rapidan Way. Paulson has been plowed a couple of times, but Rapidan hasn&#8217;t been touched at all. Her garage is on Rapidan.  \u201cWe have three important doctors\u2019 appointments next week, and so that\u2019s why I\u2019m calling,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThe first one is on Monday, which is an important one for myself. And then I have a cousin, as I said, that lives with me, that has special needs, and she has two appointments. We\u2019ve been waiting for those appointments for more than three months,\u201d she said.Jordan said streets like Rapidan Way and Vanilla Way are often overlooked when snow falls. She&#8217;s lived in her home her entire life \u2014 74 years.   \u201cWe\u2019ve had smaller snow amounts, and so I\u2019ve been able to get out,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cBut this time I can\u2019t do it. I mean, just the middle of the road is higher than the bottom of my car, so I\u2019m pretty much stuck. And at my age, I don\u2019t want to try to shovel myself out.\u201dJordan said she has contacted 311 and multiple city offices without success. She said she waited before reaching out to Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 because she understands crews are prioritizing main roads.\u201cWe do exist down here,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cYou know, it is a tertiary road, but it needs to be plowed, too. And I think after almost a week, it\u2019s time that somebody paid attention to this road.\u201dThe mayor\u2019s office said 311 calls remain backlogged and that dozens of city plows and contracted snow removal crews are still working across Pittsburgh.Jordan said she hopes attention from Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 will help speed up the response.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Several streets in Pittsburgh\u2019s East Liberty neighborhood are virtually untouched nearly a week after a massive winter storm. <\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Jordan lives on the corner of Paulson Avenue and Rapidan Way. Paulson has been plowed a couple of times, but Rapidan hasn&#8217;t been touched at all. Her garage is on Rapidan.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have three important doctors\u2019 appointments next week, and so that\u2019s why I\u2019m calling,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThe first one is on Monday, which is an important one for myself. And then I have a cousin, as I said, that lives with me, that has special needs, and she has two appointments. We\u2019ve been waiting for those appointments for more than three months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan said streets like Rapidan Way and Vanilla Way are often overlooked when snow falls. She&#8217;s lived in her home her entire life \u2014 74 years.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had smaller snow amounts, and so I\u2019ve been able to get out,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cBut this time I can\u2019t do it. I mean, just the middle of the road is higher than the bottom of my car, so I\u2019m pretty much stuck. And at my age, I don\u2019t want to try to shovel myself out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan said she has contacted 311 and multiple city offices without success. She said she waited before reaching out to Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 because she understands crews are prioritizing main roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do exist down here,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cYou know, it is a tertiary road, but it needs to be plowed, too. And I think after almost a week, it\u2019s time that somebody paid attention to this road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office said 311 calls remain backlogged and that dozens of city plows and contracted snow removal crews are still working across Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan said she hopes attention from Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 will help speed up the response.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more news in your area | <a target=\"_blank\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several streets in Pittsburgh\u2019s East Liberty neighborhood are virtually untouched nearly a week after a massive winter storm.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,1665,16569,49681,28365,10400,84,40481,2008,26257,73,75,74,49679,6014,49680,49678,526,5865],"class_list":["post-102393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-appointment","tag-attention","tag-city-plow","tag-dozen","tag-east-liberty","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-corey-oconnor","tag-office","tag-paulson-avenue","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rapidan-way","tag-road","tag-several-street","tag-stephanie-jordan","tag-time","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}