“I work downtown and I am a frequent Strip shopper. I oppose this plan. Bike lanes are incredibly underutilized in Pittsburgh due in part to the demographics (elderly, out of shape) and the weather (pretty bad almost always). While it would be nice to pretend that Pittsburgh is a groovy city that embraces bike lanes, and that folks will all of a sudden use them, we know that’s not true, eyeballing how little the existing lanes are used, and the Strip certainly is simply not conducive to bike traffic, given that people are shopping and carting off big bags of purchases. Yes, traffic is tight but making a single lane will exacerbate the problem. Please reconsider.”
