Pittsburgh Club Meeting

[Ron Z]

It has been said that one does not "learn" Pittsburgh. You memorize it.

[inkstainedruth]

That doesn't really work so well . I remember when they were building I-279 North. I was living in Highland Park, and pretty much every week for something like six months the connecting ramps between it, Rt 28, and getting over to McKnight Road to go shopping had changed pretty much every time....

Because of course, it's Pittsburgh. And the shortest distance between two points is under construction.

What gets me is that they do all these road projects, all at the same time. And then, in 15-20 years, they will all need to get done again -- all at the same time.... On the other hand, as a non-native, I have learned my way around. Way better than some natives do (because they won't cross a bridge, or go on a highway). Me? I grew up 50 miles north of NYC, in solid suburbia. With pretty much zero mass transit (unless you were going to NYC, and then it was catch one commuter bus on the other side of town -- and hope you made it back to Port Authority to catch the last bus home -- or drive to Croton-on-Harmon and take the train; everything else, it was walk, ride a bike, or drive (or know someone with a car). I'd have meetings at the other end of the county. I *worked* halfway down county from where my parents house was (which is largely why I racked up nearly 40,000 miles on my first car in the first three years I owned it -- most of that was commuting between Shrub Oak and Elmsford, including driving my dad to either IBM Yorktown, or to the location in Eastview that IBM rented from Union Carbide).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth