(rshsdepot) Edgewood now cooperating on East Busway

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Edgewood now cooperating on East 
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     Edgewood now cooperating on East Busway

      Friday, February 15, 2002

      By Joe Grata, Post-Gazette Staff Writer







      A Port Authority committee today recommended approval of an 
agreement with Edgewood for amenities connected with the East Busway, 
which borough officials have opposed for a decade.

      The agreement calls for a busway station, pedestrian overpass, a 
pedestrian tunnel, linear park, restoring the old Edgewood train station 
and helping the borough develop a plan to revitalize the Edgewood Avenue 
business district.

      Although construction of the $63 million busway extension is well 
under way and on schedule to be opened late this year, the Port 
Authority has been advancing work without plans for the Edgewood stop or 
other amenities for the eastern suburb, whose position in recent years 
has been to demand a light-rail line instead of the buses-only road.

      The authority has money left in the project -- and federal 
authorization for -- the $325,000 train station restoration, a $100,000 
pedestrian underpass and some lesser items such as repaving portions of 
Edgewood Avenue affected by the construction underway.

      But the authority will have to rely on the federal government for 
approval and up to $2.5 million in extra funding for a busway station, 
the linear park alongside the busway and a $250,000 pedestrian overpass 
to Edgewood Towne Center, a nearby shopping plaza.

      In exchange for its cooperation, the borough has agreed to grant 
certain easements, curb cuts and permits necessary for construction. 
Officials have been denying those items, forcing the authority to appeal 
to the state agencies.



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      More details in tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.






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