The road construction season has wound down for
the year, but lots of activity continues to take place in the transportation arena:
The latest:
 Construction updates
Getting Around: The
motorists speak - the Liberty Tunnels 'improvement' project needs lots of tweaking
Past articles:
Getting
Around: Is the Rt. 51 - West Liberty Ave. interchange a boon or a bane?
Getting Around: Want
to help PennDOT with image?
Getting Around:
Making the turnpike E-Z-er
Getting Around:
PennDOT, police should act like team
Getting Around:
Pittsburgh party poopers
Getting Around: Two good ideas to ease bad delays
Getting Around: Pie in the sky -- and trains that fly
Getting Around:
Taking another holiday poke at PennDOT
Getting
Around: To stay right with the law, stay right on the highway
Getting
Around: Please paint street, not cars
Getting
Around: The ABCs PennDOT style
Getting Around: Pittsburgh makes the list of 149 worst
bottlenecks -- twice
Getting Around: Port
Authority adds hand-holds to new buses
Getting Around:
Surveys: We're No. 3, or 13, or... now you answer
Grata's
Guide:Skull buckets have been protecting noggins for 80 years
Grata Guide: Roddey's transit role insight to his plans
Grata's
Guide: A treat, and a trick, from PennDOT
Grata's
Guide: Amtrak fails to stay on schedule
Grata's Guide: Hey, Councilman Ricciardi, don't be 'insulted' by the facts
Grata's Guide: Most
likely litterers are 11 to 34 years old
Grata's
Guide: Waterless turnpike urinals leave reader smelling a rat
Grata's
Guide: Turnpike flush with pride over new, waterless urinals
Grata's Guide: New
license plates raise new issues
Grata's
Guide: After Labor Day traffic will take a turn for the worse
Vanity
is the name of the game in license plates
Intersection from another era may be fixed in another era
Weekend transit
nightmare gets a 'T' -- for terrible
Analysis: Some ask where
tax for roads has gone
Road work
rolls on as way cleared for 2nd round of regional projects
Local firm has the inside track on people-moving innovations
PennDOT making bad
traffic worse at Century Square
When did we become bicycle-friendly?
Anybody who's anybody gets his name on a state highway
When
will you pave the other half of our South Side street?
The Projects:
Ready or not, Fort Pitt repairs begin
Fifty-day time table will be tough to complete, contractor says
Downtown workers face traffic with courage
Shippers look for ways to keep on trucking
Share the frustration and start a car pool
So you made it Downtown -- now where do you park?
Summer events will carry on despite it all
Weekend restrictions to slow Parkway East travelers
Five-year Route 28 project begins this summer in Etna
Route 51 traffic unfazed by construction -- so far
Liberty Tunnels construction nearing completion?
And now the good news!
Fare reduction program in works to reduce summer traffic, air
pollution
Port Authority buses will be detoured; some stops changed
Local bus routes affected by construction
Tax breaks for businesses, employees make bus passes attractive
purchases
Construction zones, law enforcement and you
Answers to the main questions
Where to go for help and information:
PennDOT
Port
Authority -- 412-442-2000
Beaver
County Transit Authority -- 724-728-8600
Car-van
pool information -- 412-471-POOL
Parkway
East information -- 877-777-8985
University
of Pittsburgh ride-sharing -- 412-624-0687
Airport
Corridor Transportation Assoc. -- 412-788-1199
KDKA/AAA
Motor Club traffic reports -- 1020 AM
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