east liberty station: realizing the potential - City of Pittsburgh

5. Design streets for all users.
As previously demonstrated the area
around the station, particularly to the south
and east is designed primarily with automobiles
in mind. Pedestrians have difficulty
navigating key intersections in this zone
including locations with major on-street
bus stops along Penn Avenue.
The bicycle infrastructure connections to
the stop also suffer from the automobile
oriented streets, again particularly along
Penn avenue to the east. In recent years
the City of Pittsburgh has made great progress
in improving bicycle facilities throughout
the city including the dedicated bicycle
lanes found along East Liberty Boulevard,
Beechwood Boulevard and in Mellon Park.
There has also been significant progress in
adding shared lane markings and signage
to key on-street routes. However these
existing routes only serve the station area
well from the south western side, approaching
from Shadyside through smaller side
streets.
Key missing links in the bicycle infrastructure
exist on the section of Penn avenue
between Shady and East Liberty Boulevard
and on Shady Avenue between Penn and
Alder Street. The area shown in pink at
right is in need of a complete street redesign
to allow more modes of transportation
to access the most public edge of the station
and to support future TOD.
The station also lacks effective bicycle
parking with only a single older bicycle rack
that does not meet the current city
standard for bicycle parking.
Dedicated Bicycle Lanes
Larimer Ave
Penn Ave
Broad St
No Bicycle Infrastructure
connects to the station
Fifth Ave
East Liberty Station
Alder St
Centre Ave
LARIMER EAST LIBERTY
Collins St
East Liberty Blvd
Highland Ave
Shady Ave
Auto-oriented intersection at Penn and Shady
Penn Circle N
SHADYSIDE
Baum Blvd
Penn Circle W
On-Street Bicycle Routes
Penn Ave
N
Existing bicycle parking at the station
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