“The Strip District is already crowded for traffic with two lanes. Restricting traffic to one lane will create significant traffic problems. Please rethink your plan for this important area of Pittsburgh.”

“As a first responder for the city this is a terrible idea to reduce the strip to one lane. Asinine and Ludicrous. Keep it the way it is now.”

“I live right in Bloomfield and depend on the strip for specialty and heritage items.”

“As a bus driver, I go through the strip all the time. This will make things much harder for me. My veterinarian is in the strip as well and I'd hate for them to suffer because of poor leadership.”

“Stop changing the things about our city that make it unique and fix the things that will benefit the city……bridges, roads and the homeless and disadvantaged!!!! The focus should be on what keeps people coming to our city not driving out the ones who already live here!!
Do not try to fix what is not broken…..WE LOVE THE STRIP FOR WHAT IT IS !!!!!”

“Keep the strip the way it is”

“As a property owner on Penn Ave, I have been in the strip almost daily and able to actively observe the traffic flow on Penn Ave since November of 2023. Anyone actually driving, walking or observing Penn Ave would realize the impractical and harmful decision to restrict traffic flow. The two lanes of traffic allow for business and residential deliveries, emergency vehicles, backing into park spots, construction restrictions with one lane of traffic still able to pass in the second lane. Restricting emergency vehicles, commuter traffic and delivery access due to traffic congestion is critical concern.

Difficult to understand the fixation on impacting Penn Ave, when there is a safer and simpler solution to have a bike lane along the river trail (or a less traveled road). Clearly the volume of bikes is minuscule and seasonal compared to cars, trucks, delivery, emergency and construction vehicles on a daily basis at any time of the day. Thank you for your consideration.”

“This is absolute insanity. The traffic is bad enough as it is, now this? These bike lanes are stupid. Bikers don't adhere to any road rules in regular lanes or bike lanes. Half the time, they don't even use bike lanes, they're just in with traffic. Traffic is always slow and it takes forever to get anywhere. Who thought this was a good idea? Do better.”

“I come to the strip every single week on Monday to do my shopping.

There’s no way I would continue to do so with the headaches that would come along with this change.

Please reconsider!”

“It’s a historic area that invites a lot of people to support local businesses. I enjoy going and walking around the neighborhood, it would be sad for it to be affected by this plan.”

“Stop with the bike lanes! NOT NEEDED. Already bad enough since you haven’t run the city right for 40 years.”

“Stupid idea – and will hurt business, and be dangerous for the bikers.”

“Mayors plan is horrible”

“Penn Ave is already too crowded — going to one lane will make it worse. There are far more people who drive cars than people who ride bikes.”

“Restricting traffic on Penn Avenue will result in congestion and chaos”

“Don't mess with what has worked for 100 yrs.”

“This is one of the most inane plans I’ve ever seen.”

“Misguided Gainey! There is a constant flow of traffic down the two lanes ofPenn Avenue into the Strip District. Traffic flow is already congested on weekends to the point that I avoid going down there on Saturday and Sunday. Please do not make these changes. How about you put the money towards opening the two bridges that are strangling the flow of traffic into an out of squirrel Hill and Oakland!”

PENN AVENUE IS ALREADY A NIGHTMARE TO NAVIGATE WITH TWO LANES. CUTTING IT TO ONE IS ABSURD!!

“Horrible idea”

“I would be extremely reluctant to visit the Strip if parking and driving was more difficult.”

“This is the most absurd thing I've seen!! Do you want EVERYTHING in this city to shut down!! Gainey, you are pushing people OUT of the city instead of building a better city!! Open your eyes to whats going on!! How many bicycles do we really have compared to the cars?!?! How about we make the bikers follow ALL the laws of the road if they are going to take our roads over?!?!?!

“Other options should definitely be explored. I don't feel that Pittsburgh is enough of a biking town to warrant adding a bike lane to Penn Avenue.”

“I am a lifetime City of Pittsburgh resident and find this change will ruin Strip access. I stop often unplanned when passing through.
This would increase traffic and I may as well just loop around on Rt 28 as thousands others will do. Honestly, the bikes have more options than vehicles in the Strip (and the City) and do not justify a lane on Penn. If you really want to make progress insure that all new housing has 100% parking spots for all residents within the development. This will get resident parking off the streets and allow more room for businesses to thrive. DOMI move onto some other un-bright idea.”

“Whoever is doing this study has obviously never been on Penn Ave on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Making Penn Ave one lane would cause massive gridlock to an area that is already congested with two lanes. I am terribly sad to say that this change would make me think twice about my regular (at least one a month) trips to the Strip, where I regularly spend a couple $100 per trip.”