Port Authority management has taken an unprecedented step by establishing a special Web site to update the public about contract negotiations with Local 85, Amalgamated Transit Union. ... (Today)
Officials from the 10-county region have adopted a federally mandated Transportation Improvement Program that will guide road, bridge and transit improvements for the 2009-12 period. ... (Today)
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Col. Michael P. Crall, district engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers, leads a tour of the dewatered lock chambers at the Braddock Locks an Dam along the Monongahela River yesterday. In the group, left to right, are Jim McCarville, executive director for the Port of Pittsburgh, and U.S. Reps. Tim Murphy and Jason Altmire. The facility will be repoened July 12.
With a lock on the Monongahela River drained for repairs as a backdrop, the Army Corps of Engineers, lawmakers and representatives of area coal and steel industries stressed the importance of ... (Today)
U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, has delivered what he promised Alle-Kiski Valley officials: $500,000 to further study establishing commuter trains to Downtown Pittsburgh. ... (Yesterday)
Clarence and Mary Rollason own a car and pick-up truck, but have permanently parked ''the gas-guzzler.'' "These days we only use our car, and often ask others to go with us -- and vice versa,'' ... (Yesterday)