[PRCo] Re: West Liberty Avenue paving

[George W. Gula]

> Could it be that they are going to work on the outer edges first then work
> on the center so that traffic may be maintained?
> As for not taking the photos, you know the old adage......."a picture is
> worth a thousand words".
> 
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 23:07, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> West Liberty is currently being repaved inbound from below Pioneer
>> (upper end) to the ramp to (what's now the busway). The crown of most
>> of it is intact, while the edges are scraped. Why? A lot of intact
>> rail. There's a good bit of cobblestone and/or brick railside showing,
>> and occasionally a few feet of rail. From Cape May to about the busway
>> ramp, the center of the road has been removed to the subbase, and
>> there are no rails. I don't know if they are going to keep pulling
>> rails up the hill.
>> 
>> I was biking inbound from Mt Lebanon, and did not stop the bike to
>> take pictures. Likewise, while biking up Warrington I considered a
>> shot of just how bad the pavement along the trackage there is, but
>> decided to just push on home.
>> 
>> --
>> Derrick
>> 
>> 
> 
Derrick

Penn Dot is removing all the rail on West Liberty Avenue as they repave. The
City of Pittsburgh now has a policy to remove old rail when major street
reconstruction occurs.

George Gula