Pittsburgh begins work on bicycle connection to Point State Park

Work began this week on a long-awaited connection designed to plug a gap in the Great Allegheny Passage hiking and biking trail between Point State Park in Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure announced the start of construction on a two-lane bike track from Stanwix Street at Third Avenue to Penn and Liberty avenues and on Liberty to Commonwealth Place and the park.

Work includes an enhanced bus stop, milling and paving, restoration of concrete pavement, new curbs and curb ramps and sidewalk repairs. It also includes signs and pavement markings and traffic signal upgrades.

The $927,000 federally funded project will take about five months. Drivers should expect lane restrictions and alternating lanes of traffic, according to DOMI.

When completed the Gap to the Point project will complete an unbroken bike trail through Downtown to the Great Allegheny Passage and safe passage for cyclists to the nation’s capital, according to DOMI. It also will provide key safety enhancements for more than 1,100 daily bicycle commuters in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to the city.