Pittsburgh, PA, May 27, 2009 – Port Authority of Allegheny County will host a 12-hour Open House next week to gather public feedback on its plans to improve transit service.
The June 3 event will be the first of two Open Houses hosted by the Authority as it discusses details of the Transit Development Plan and accepts public comments on the concepts.
No formal presentation will be given. However, detailed information will be displayed and available, and Authority officials will be on hand to answer questions and explain the changes under consideration.
The Downtown Pittsburgh event is scheduled for June 3 in the Urban Room at the Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
A second Authority Open House is scheduled in Oakland on June 8. That event will be held in Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom on the University of Pittsburgh campus from 2-5 p.m. and 5:30-7:30 p.m. Alumni Hall is located at 4227 Fifth Avenue.
The public Open Houses give riders, residents and other groups a forum to review the agency’s plans to improve transit service, ask questions and provide feedback before a final decision is made later this summer.
The Transit Development Plan is an effort to make Port Authority’s network of bus and light rail routes faster, more frequent, simpler to use and more efficient. The transit agency, and Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, has developed three general concepts of how this might be achieved.
A special Authority Web site, http://tdp.portauthority.org offers all of the details about the concepts. A feedback area allows users to submit comments online.
More than 1,100 comments already have been submitted regarding the Authority’s plans.