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Community members express concerns over plans for Bates row houses

By Clare Sheedy, Staff Writer • June 30, 2021

After years of dealing with the series of boarded up and uninhabited Bates Street row houses, Oakland community members are making sure the pending owner of the parcel — Walnut Capital — has definitive plans to fix up the area.

Milling, paving operations to affect Oakland traffic

By Janine Faust, Editor-in-chief • June 20, 2019

PennDOT District 11 announced in a press release Thursday that milling and paving operations on Forbes will reduce the length of the avenue running between Craft Avenue and South Craig Street to a single lane of traffic.

Big changes may come to Bigelow

By Madison Hook | For The Pitt News • October 13, 2017

The City of Pittsburgh closed Bigelow Boulevard in 1996 for 29 days. Then-Mayor Tom Murphy said they felt closing Bigelow “would make for ... a more attractive campus.” The trial program didn’t...

City plans to expand smart signals to Oakland

By Sarah Frumkin | For The Pitt News • September 26, 2017

With the dozens of traffic lights and congestion, driving in Oakland can be frustrating and stressful. But every so often, you can time it perfectly and breeze down Forbes or Fifth Avenue, passing...