Posted July 27, 201212 yr This is the second time I've done this, so I'll type the captions (again) sometime later. These are presented chronologically, so you can probably figure this out anyway... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 27, 201212 yr ^Nice photos I hate driving into the Fort Pitt Tunnel. It goes down to two lanes and traffic is backed up on Sundays... It's terrible. I love getting out of the Tunnel though! Incredible view (especially if the first time you go is at night, like me)
July 28, 201212 yr Doesn't look like you had much time there, but I'm liking what I see. Nice station.
July 29, 201212 yr Were you challenged in any way for taking photos in subway stations? I've been able to take photos in outlying above-ground stations without any problems, but in 2006 in the Steel Plaza station, while trying to be unobtrusive but not furtive, I managed to get just two photos before I was backed into a corner by a very big cop who took my ID and radioed someone to run a check on me: He told me that photography was absolutely prohibited on all PAT property except with a permit and while accompanied by an offical from PAT's public relations department. I've heard similar stories from other people, who were made to delete their photos while a cop watched. At least that part didn't happen to me.
July 29, 201212 yr I was unaware that Pittsburgh had a subway system. Do those lines come up to street-level at some point in the route ?
July 29, 201212 yr Robert, In the future, refuse to comply and ask what law was broken. You may be arrested briefly, but make sure you take down the names of all persons concerned. Then you will file a lawsuit in the future and get a nice settlement package from the transit agency for violating your civil rights. I was unaware that Pittsburgh had a subway system. Do those lines come up to street-level at some point in the route ? Yes, in fact you can see the station where it does to the surface and then crosses the Mongahela River on the Panhandle Bridge. All rail lines go to the south side only, to Library and South Hills, and are mostly on a surface alignment. There are a couple of tunnels, but lots of bridges and long stretches of streetcar running. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 29, 201212 yr Hubz brings up the dilemma of subways -- visitors don't know that they're there like an elevated line or streetcar. In LA I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of the metro population knows they have a subway, despite it attracting 200,000 riders per day.
July 29, 201212 yr ^ When I was in pittsburgh, their subway seemed to always have great ridership at all times of the day, and witha good variety of people. Im not sure what their ridership numbers are, or if its always like that, but it was a very nice experience when I was there.
July 29, 201212 yr I don't care for their new Gateway station but I'm glad to see the Northside having some rail stations. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 29, 201212 yr The new Gateway Sta. looks like a Frank Ghery product... Indoors, the new North Side station looks nice; spacious, like a DC Metro stop, just not many people... Always surprises me that, given Pittsburgh's downtown density and geographic constraints, transit usage (and rail coverage) isn't many times higher there. You'd think it'd be more Boston-like.
July 30, 201212 yr I don't care for their new Gateway station but I'm glad to see the Northside having some rail stations. I liked it -- except for the opaque roof on the glass bubble over the station. If you're going to try to make the subway station feel more open with a glass bubble on top, then why cancel out the openness with the opaque roof? Clvlndr -- most of the ridership got on at the terminal station on the North Shore, the elevated Allegheny station. I had typed all of this (and more) in my first attempt at posting the photos, but I inadvertently deleted that posting. I don't like repeating things, so I haven't included all that text before each photo I had posted before. So anyway, the train was about one-half to two-thirds full upon arriving the North Shore subway from the Allegheny. I was very surprised to see that. But there is the Rivers casino next to that station, plus the science center, plus some nice high-density neighborhoods to the north, plus several bus lines that converge at that station. So it has a hell of a lot more around it than what's at the end of Cleveland's Waterfront Line. And that should help the North Shore extension perform a lot better than the Waterfront Line has since the Flats East Bank died. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 4, 201212 yr Were you challenged in any way for taking photos in subway stations? I've been able to take photos in outlying above-ground stations without any problems, but in 2006 in the Steel Plaza station, while trying to be unobtrusive but not furtive, I managed to get just two photos before I was backed into a corner by a very big cop who took my ID and radioed someone to run a check on me: He told me that photography was absolutely prohibited on all PAT property except with a permit and while accompanied by an offical from PAT's public relations department. I've heard similar stories from other people, who were made to delete their photos while a cop watched. At least that part didn't happen to me. rob this was an issue for a long while post-9/11, but seems to have fizzled away over the years. here is some helpful info about being confronted for taking photos per ssp: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=129445
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