Pittsburgh\u2019s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure will address problem spots in Bloomfield and Chateau with more than $2.3 million in new grants from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.<\/p>\n
The department plans to redesign an intersection in the heart of Bloomfield at the Bloomfield Bridge, Liberty Avenue and Main Street, and will upgrade its traffic signals.<\/p>\n
Upgrading the intersection, which cuts through Bloomfield, has been \u201ca longtime community priority,\u201d city spokeswoman Molly Onufer said in a release. The two roads leading to the Bloomfield Bridge \u2014 Bigelow Boulevard and Craig Street \u2014 carry over 21,000 vehicles daily, according to city statistics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project will completely reimagine and rebuild the complicated intersection to improve pedestrian safety, reduce vehicle conflicts and improve transit accessibility,\u201d Onufer said.<\/p>\n
The department is working with PennDOT to secure a contractor to design the project and has yet to release potential construction details.<\/p>\n
The department also received funds to stabilize a portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Chateau between Branchport Street and Columbus Avenue that deteriorated last summer.<\/p>\n
Trail users had been detoured into the surrounding neighborhood and plans to fix the trail began immediately, Onufer said.<\/p>\n
The funds are part of the $30.7 million in discretionary money the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission spread across more than a dozen projects in its 10-county jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
The projects the SPC funded \u2014 which are part of its 2027-31 Transportation Improvement Program \u2014 met federal performance standards to improve safety, maintain air quality standards, reduce emissions and keep roads and bridges in good condition, spokesman DJ Ryan said in a release.<\/p>\n
PRT received $9 million to extend its in-progress University Line expansion into Squirrel Hill. The project had stretched from Downtown into Oakland and will now potentially have a station along Murray Avenue or Browns Hill Road.<\/p>\n
Other grants included $1 million for a roundabout in Center Township, Beaver County, $250,000 to study the Mt. Pleasant Road transit corridor in Westmoreland County and more than $350,000 to increase pedestrian safety in Manorville, Armstrong County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh\u2019s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure will address problem spots in Bloomfield and Chateau with more than $2.3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-255725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255725","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=255725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}