Pennsylvania has $80 million for special local transportation work
A federal program that in the past has allowed Pittsburgh to fill in gaps in sidewalks and New Castle to establish a bicycle-pedestrian route over a five-block area has $80 million available for Pennsylvania in this cycle. The Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside program managed by the state Department of Transportation will begin accepting applications Monday. The…
Not just a courtesy: Braddock nonprofit launches free three-month transit rider program as it serves its 80 Allegheny County communities
Three years ago Heritage Community Initiatives started a Day of Service to thank its constituents and invite them to share its passion for helping others. On Wednesday the 42-year-old nonprofit continued the tradition, waiving fees for the education, transportation and meal services it provides. It asked clients and supporters to contribute to a food and supply…
Downtown rally asks Pittsburghers to ‘Stand with Immigrants,’ and they do
At a moment when the country’s president and other elected and appointed officials are hell-bent to detain and deport more and more immigrants, hundreds of Pittsburghers demonstrated that they prefer to retain and support immigrants. Roughly 500 people attended a “Stand with Immigrants” rally at the City-County Building, Downtown, Saturday afternoon, one day after President…
Mon-Fayette Expressway project could stall at Dravosburg without more money
The Mon-Fayette Expressway, the highway pushed for decades as the key to rebuilding the once thriving center of the steel industry, is facing yet another hurdle before the next segment can be completed. The Pennsylvania Turnpike won’t be able to finish the southern section of the long-awaited highway unless the state Legislature provides another source…
Turnpike to seek bids for next section of Mon-Fayette Expressway from West Mifflin to Dravosburg
The next section of the Mon-Fayette Expressway is only eight-tenths of a mile long, but it will be a complicated project that includes moving 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt, realigning a local road, and building a 160-foot-tall, 1,300-foot-long bridge. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Tuesday authorized the agency to seek bids on the section…
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‘Bye Bye Bye’: Pine-Richland product Meghan Klingenberg eyeing future in wake of ‘amazing moments’ during U.S. Women’s National Team, NWSL career
Like many preteen girls across southwestern Pennsylvania at the time, Meghan Klingenberg had been anxiously anticipating the night of July 10, 1999. “My best friend came over because we were going to go to the *NSYNC concert,” she recalled. There was just one problem. “As an 11-year-old girl at that time *NSYNC was the most…
2025 PUP baseball Player of the Year: Riverside’s Zach Hare
Zach Hare was so dominant in the postseason that it seemed strange when he finally gave up his first hit. “It was weird,” Riverside teammate Christian Lucarelli said. Hare fired 34 consecutive hitless in the playoffs, which is believed to be a national record. And his postseason excellence played a large part in the Panthers…
Red Line service near Dawn Station faces 12 days of disruption for track replacement
Riders of Pittsburgh Regional Transit who use the Dawn Station will face disruptions for 12 days beginning Tuesday. The agency will suspend Red Line service between the Westfield Station and South Hills Junction through July 19 to replace tracks near the Dawn Station that have been in service since 1982. The work is considered a…
From slag heap to solar field: Pittsburgh transforming Swisshelm Park site
A slag heap once eyed as part of a major housing development in Pittsburgh’s Swisshelm Park neighborhood is being remediated as a 55-acre expansion of Frick Park and a 15-acre solar field. The site, purchased by the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority in 1972 from the former Duquesne Slag Co., is adjacent to the Somerset at…
Deterioration of pier causes closure of bridge over Interstate 279
After finding more deterioration in a bridge pier, Allegheny County indefinitely closed the Jacks Run Bridge No. 3 over Interstate 279 Thursday until it can decide whether to repair the pier or move up the replacement of the bridge from 2027. At a news conference at the bridge on Jacks Run Road that connects Bellevue…
