[PRCo] Re: One way streets

[Fred Schneider]

Yes, you picked up on that.   After I sent it, I realized I had made  
a mistake.   It does not quite align with Ferry.

On May 12, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Cecil Alley is now Cecil Way and is the extension of Fifth Avenue  
> from Penn
> to Ft. Duquesne Blvd.  It is a half-block east of Stanwix and never  
> became
> Stanwix.  The original Stanwix ran from Liberty to the Allegheny  
> River.  Its
> name was extended over the former Ferry Street to the Monongahela  
> River.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 8:03 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] One way streets
>
> As an example of how early motor vehicle traffic was starting to be  
> a burden
> in Pittsburgh ...
>
> Penn Avenue became one-way west (from Ferry to 32nd) and Liberty one-
> way east (from Grant to 32nd) ..... way back in 1918.   That is when
> routes 86, 87, 88, 94 and 95 became inbound on Penn and outbound on
> Liberty.   Today we call Ferry Stanwix south of Liberty.   North of
> Liberty Cecil Alley became Stanwix.
>
> That fits in very well with my earlier suggestion that the city  
> probably
> wanted cars off the streets and onto loops instead of changing end  
> in the
> middle of streets.
>
> I still have not found when Wood and Smithfield became one-way  
> streets, or
> perhaps I just have not been sufficiently observant.
>
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