“There is lots of room for bikes on Smallman”

“This lane restriction would have a significant negative impact. I frequently shop in the strip and patronize local businesses.
I do not support this it would make traffic more difficult and parking even worse . Local businesses will suffer in an already challenging economic time and mass uncertainty.”

“Stop this plan!”

“This area is perfect. Don’t reinvent the wheel!!”

“The strip should be left alone. Businesses need the traffic and the customers need the strip!”

“Things in the Strip are cumbersome as it is, but workable.”

“This proposal directly affects the small, long term business owners of the STRIP DISTRICT.
As a service industry employee, who's industry is already greatly.impacted by the both "Shiny and New" Terminal, filled mainly by large corporate businesses and developed by a firm from Chicago, this will surely put local businesses in another proverbial stranglehold.
If this bike lane is so important, then consider putting it on Smallman Street, where 2 lane traffic already exists with room to pass.

This is a personal attack on the STRIP LOCAL.
Don't let this bike lane be the reason Pittsburgh will lose what remaining charm it has left.”

“This is an absurd plan. We don’t live in Portland. This is not a biking community. Bikers are rude. How many people will be injured by stepping into a bike lane? You have already chopped up the city, taken away parking and ruined the city’s esthetic with bike lanes and those ridiculous (and ugly) white posts. Additionally, those posts are a road hazard when they are used on a curved road and a large truck is traveling alongside the posts and a vehicle is moving the opposite direction. I have been run off the road by a truck in this circumstance.”

“Hopefully, if Cory O'Connor is elected mayor he will realize the importance of Strip district businesses having the vehicular access and open roads, so people can journey there and shop in comfort.”

“Bike lanes can be added to Smallman or Railroad Ave where there is less traffic and it would be safer for cyclists while less impact to the Strip. DOMI has continued to make changes like these without the consent of the neighborhoods involved. They should be required to have agreement of all residents and businesses before taking action like they are required to do for paving a cobblestone street or adding permit parking. Their destructive actions across the city need to end and they need to actually work with the community instead of saying they will. There are countless other projects like this that impede first responders and have created more traffic in the name of “safety.””

“I work in town and see bike lanes rarely used! Extremely bad idea!”

We usually go to the strip District twice a month on a Saturday. This past Saturday it was crazy. There was no parking but as you are driving down the street you could be lucky enough that someone is pulling out and you can get their spot. I am handicap and couldn't find a spot, but people were parked in handicap without a plaque. Everyone was kind, smiling, laughing, holding doors open and just being kind. I couldn't even imagine putting a bike lane in. Put the bike lane on one street over but not on Penn Avenue.

“This is a horrible plan. Another bad decision by the failing city.”

“For the safety and prosperity of the community please don’t do this project.”

“I have lived on Washington's Landing since 1997. Allowing cars to turn left on Penn Avenue off of the 31st Street Bridge after bridge reconstruction has caused major congestion during rush hour (4-5 light delay). If Penn Avenue is changed to one lane, all buses and cars trying to park on Penn Avenue after 31st Street will exacerbate the situation as all traffic will be halted, and will probably negatively effect Route 28. Send the bikes down to Railroad Street, that is where I walk.”

“Spending millions of taxes payer dollars to add a bike lane, make a bottleneck scenario and create an obstacle course for fire and emergency vehicles is just insane.

The people who sit around and think up these ideas, agree and then vote on them should be removed from service immediately.

There are other areas in this city where that money can do some real good.”

“Are you trying to ruin the Penn Avenue strip. This would devastate businesses and visitors on Penn Avenue. The Penn Avenue strip has been established and running smoothly for years. Why would you change that unless you are trying to wipe out the Penn Avenue businesses?”

“NO BIKE LANE THROUGH THE STRIP.”

“Currently, when vehicles are unloading or discharging passengers, you can go around them via the second lane. Eliminating a lane will cause catastrophic consequences to this area.”

“There is Liberty Avenue and there is Smallman and Railroad Street. If those aren't enough options for bike riders then tell em to take the bus. A lot more stuff needs to be done in this city than installing bike lanes.”

“Everywhere bike lanes go it makes it harder for me to visit those parts of the city”

“Thank you for not destroying the strip”

“Increased traffic congestion. Safety issues with just one drivable lane.”

“This is another pro bike move that will not help the customers or businesses in the Strip. Bikes can continue to use Liberty ave and do not need to travel through that part of the Strip. It is time for the regular resident and customers to the Strip to be consulted instead of having pro biker Lanes shoved on the rest of us. Leave it the way it is.”