The Charles Anderson Bridge has been closed to all vehicular traffic until repairs can be made.
Bates Street Widening
Bus Rapid Transit
Swinburne Bridge
About
The City of Pittsburgh, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), is advancing the Swinburne Bridge replacement project.
The bridge functions as a critical link between Four Mile Run, South Oakland, Greenfield, Hazelwood, and downtown. It weaves beneath the I-376 Frazier St Viaduct and over CSX/Allegheny Valley railroad, Saline St, serving as a gateway to Four Mile Run.
The current Swinburne bridge, built in 1915, consists of six deck- and thru-girder spans on steel bent towers. While novel for its day, it lacks modern principles of bridge design which provide increased redundancy and decreases future maintenance needs.
Upcoming
The June 16 public meeting has been rescheduled for July 14 at 6:30 PM. At this time, the design team is ready to share preliminary details with the community about the proposed bridge and the construction process.
Past Updates
To allow for improved response time and attendance at the first public meeting, the Zoom meeting previously scheduled for June 16 at 6:30 PM was postponed.
Preliminary engineering is currently underway on the design of a complete reconstruction of the bridge. Preliminary engineering focuses on mapping out and defining the scope of the project as well as the early design of how to take the project from A-to-Z. The design team has been focusing on how to minimize impacts to those who rely on crossing the bridge daily or live and work in the vicinity, as well as how to improve usability for future generations of Pittsburghers.
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Boundary Street bike/ped safety improvements
Project summary: Boundary Street between Joncaire and Neville is a vital connector between North and Central Oakland, and between Oakland and the Eliza Furnace Trail. It's heavily used by cars, bicycles, and pedestrians -- but it's an unsafe passage for all of them, with no sidewalk, no trail, no shoulder, and poor visibility. The Oakland Bike/Ped Committee studied this corridor in 2016, and made recommendations about possible safety improvements that are outlined in detail in this report (below). In 2018 the city allocated $50,000 in its capital budget to establish a bike lane on Neville between Boundary and Fifth Avenue, and OPDC is working with planners in the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to follow through on this plan and to encourage the city to build a dedicated and protected connection for bicyclists and pedestrians through the entirety of the corridor.
DOMI installed speed humps fall 2019, which has reduced through-speed, and has improved pedestrian safety somewhat. Plans for dedicated at-grade segregated bicycle and pedestrian trail between Joncaire and Neville are currently being developed by DOMI as part of the Mon-Oakland Mobility Project; we're currently waiting for their preliminary plan drawings to be made public so we can share them.
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