[PRCo] Re: brady st tracks

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Paul Steven <wiki at scillystuff.co.uk> wrote:
> I thought that might have happened. It looks like everything has changed
> except the railroad bridge abutment, just behind the right hand bridge
> pillar in the old photograph. Part of it now appears ~50 feet further up an
> extended Brady St in Google street view:
> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Brady+St+pittsburgh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Brady+St,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15219,+United+States&gl=uk&ei=XabYS6fnCtPE-Qbp5Mz7BQ&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&layer=c&cbll=40.436101,-79.972663&panoid=6GwEwS33N-N5Y7fnPqNaIQ&cbp=12,288.16,,0,-8.82&ll=40.436022,-79.972658&spn=0.011775,0.01929&z=16
>
> There are warnings on a Pittsburgh cycling website of trolley tracks
> breaking through the road surface in this area.

Streetcar tracks do break through on Second Avenue a bit further
inbound. You'd have to be a fool to cycle on it when there's a trail
on the old B&O tracks with no traffic just a few feet above you. I
used Second Avenue just between Bates and (lower) Swinburne to get to
the Hot Metal bridge before the connector for the bike bridge was
done, but not since. I'd prefer to survive!

Derrick