Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Client
City of Pittsburgh
Services
Transportation Planning
Traffic Engineering
Design
Outreach
Status
Completed
Broadway Avenue Schematic Design
Sam Schwartz assisted the City of Pittsburgh to develop a schematic design for Broadway Avenue, a historic Red Line light-rail corridor in the Beechview Neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The 1.2-mile segment of street faced many design challenges including center-running light rail at street level, steep topography, deteriorating transit stations, un-signalized intersections, and a context that hosts a mix of single-family residential, mutli-family, and neighborhood commercial land uses. Sam Schwartz’s work in Beechview began with the SMART TRID Study in 2011, which also focused on the Broadway Avenue corridor and explored ways to attract investment and redevelopment along the Red Line. Sam Schwartz brought expertise in urban design, transit planning and design engineering to the project, which built on design concepts first introduced in the SMART TRID Study. Through the project-tailored public- and stakeholder-input process, the schematic design represented community’s goals for improving the quality of public spaces, and proposed a design for ADA-accessible and-connected transit stations, a more multi-modal design accommodating an on-street bike facility, and intersection designs at all cross streets with pedestrian safety design enhancements.