Study pushes major trail, transit, road improvements in Hazelwood's Second Avenue corridor

The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission went into its yearlong study of traffic in Pittsburgh’s Second Avenue corridor with one clear truth: Rush-hour traffic is bad and it’s likely to get worse unless some changes are made.

The 140-page study came back with recommendations ranging from relatively minor work such as extending trails and improving sidewalks; to moderate transit improvements such as building more park-and-ride lots and extending the Bus Rapid Transit system; to major road work like redesigning the Glenwood Bridge interchange in Hays, reconstructing Bates Street from Second Avenue to Oakland and building a new, multimodal bridge across the Monongahela River from South Side to Hazelwood.

Read the full article by Ed Blazina at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.