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Old Posted Jan 10, 2012, 4:15 PM
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Originally Posted by glowrock View Post
The best place for an extension of LRT is going to be to the airport, period. Make it an express service, perhaps only a couple of stops would be needed. It would automatically be a popular service due to the thousands of people who travel between downtown and the airport daily, even with the airport's current relatively low level of overall service.

BRT extensions should be put out as far as Monroeville on the east and Cranberry/Wexford on the north.

Aaron (Glowrock)
Going out along the airport corridor, hopefully they'd have an allignment that would pass right along the parkway through Robinson including stops at either the Giant Eagle Market District (I forget what that development is called there) or Robinson Towne Center. That whole area is burgeoning.

Perhaps they could build a BRT lane on I-376 from Swissvale to Monroeville. Isn't the current terminus of the East Busway at Swissvale?

http://www.portauthority.org/PAAC/Po...es/NSCMap1.jpg

Extending this to the airport is pretty much a given. That was their intention from the start, build this connector and then extend it to the Airport. Apparently there was some intention of extending the LRT to the north of North Side Station, as the pink arrow suggests...
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