100 signatures reached
To: City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) & Mayor Elect O’Connor
Say NO to Proposed Traffic Changes on Beechwood BLVD, Wilkins Ave, and S Linden Ave
At a public meeting that will be held on December 8th 2025 at Linden School at 5:30pm, Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) will present its initial plan to change traffic patterns, make a portion of S Linden Ave one-way, restrict turns, remove parking spaces, and add pedestrian crosswalks, and bicycle infrastructure in the area of S Linden Ave, Wilkins Ave, and Beechwood Boulevard, in Squirrel Hill / Point Breeze. The plan has been designed as a “Quick-Build” and is set to be implemented in 2026.
REGISTER FOR THE MEETING HERE!
Read the City’s proposal here.
Challenges with the current plans include:
1. Fails to solve some of the most dangerous existing conditions.
REGISTER FOR THE MEETING HERE!
Read the City’s proposal here.
Challenges with the current plans include:
1. Fails to solve some of the most dangerous existing conditions.
2. Further complicates already complicated intersections, increasing the likelihood for additional danger to all users.
3. Prioritizes commuter traffic at the expense of local residents’ ability to navigate the neighborhood safely and conveniently.
4. Removes street parking from the front of several homes and many businesses, negatively impacting safety and convenience for those residents, their guests, deliveries, and visitors to the businesses.
5. Fails to provide safer pedestrian crossings to the existing PRT bus stops on Wilkins.
6. Increases travel times for popular local routes.
7. Re-routes traffic (school busses, residents’ vehicles, delivery vehicles, business patrons, etc.) to smaller side streets (Hastings Street, Reynolds Street, Gettysburg Street, Fennimore Street, Edgerton Ave, Glen Arden Drive, Kingston Way, Elysian Street, S Dallas Ave, Conover Road, Sinnet Way, Selwyn Street, Lacy Way), that were not designed to handle this level of traffic.
8. Does not take into consideration and does not include plans to reduce speeding toward and through the light at S Linden and the five-way intersection.
Why is this important?
By signing the following, I am petitioning the City and DOMI to:
1. Not implement their current proposal.
1. Not implement their current proposal.
2. Keep S. Linden Ave a two-way street for its entire length.
3. Meet with residents who live within the project area to draw on their experiences and collaborate on solutions to improve pedestrian, cyclist, and motorist routes without compromising safety, removing existing on-street parking, or creating new-unsafe conditions for any mode of transportation.
4. Conduct a traffic study of the project area during multiple times of the day – specifically during morning commute, school dismissals on S Linden (and the implications this will create for the safety at the schools on S Dallas and Reynolds), and evening commute.
5. Conduct a traffic study on the implications this will have on other nearby intersections (Hastings Street, Reynolds Street, Gettysburg Street, Fennimore Street, Edgerton Ave, Glen Arden Drive, Kingston Way, Elysian Street, S Dallas Ave, Conover Road, Sinnet Way, Selwyn Street, Lacy Way) pedestrian safety and traffic congestion.
6. Consider speed humps as an alternative on S Linden in the school zone and near the light at the five-way intersection.
How it will be delivered
Signatures will be brought to the December 8 neighborhood meeting. We will bring the updated signature list to City Council meetings.