Another half-baked story, although there probably weren't any witnesses to interview seeing as it's a rural road. Still, why did he "drift...off the left side of the road and hit a tree head-on"? Where was the guard rail? Why was he traveling fast enough to kill him?

In a separate chase, an office was actually injured. And I will admit, the suspects seem to have baited the police into it. But don't fall for the bait!

Yet another example of a police chase causing damages (at least no injuries this time) that wouldn't have happened if the police used a different strategy. Police chases cause more harm than good, and need to stop.

A long, straight road with a speed limit somewhere above 35 (I couldn't find sings with the actual limit but found sever saying "35 MPH ahead"). There are a lot of simple changes (neck-downs, chicanes, medians, not just speed limits) that could make this stretch safer.

I was about to complain that PRT, a public good, is being diverted so that UPMC, a private company, can wash their windows. Buuut, they are doing it over the weekend, and PRT barely runs weekend service anyway...Although the East Busway is one of their best assets...Eh, I guess ambivalence wins.

At least we have the location here, but again, they're just reporting a post from the EMS' facebook page. No follow-up? No analysis? No further questions?

Does not even mention where it happened. They're basically just reading a tweet from the school. Is any actual investigative reporting happening here?

Glad to see some action from PennDOT on this. I'm not confident it will result in much, especially if people are only asking for a lower speed limit and not physical changes. PennDOT usually won't do anything that a warrant study doesn't say is necessary because they fear congestion more than death.

Another half-baked story. Are these people even trying to get more details from first responders to see what actually happened? This tells us nothing about the driving behavior, the infrastructure, the crash history, anything useful.

I guess it's just the season for school bus crashes. I hate how this article says that the bus was "involved" in a crash. By leading with the bus they make it sound like it's the bus drivers fault, when the information provided doesn't seem to reflect that.

The Business Association would only have to pay 1/3 of what they initially had to pay for their injunction, but they're arguing they should only have to pay a "nominal fee." This is indicative of how these people think rules don't apply to them. So far, the judge seems unwilling to budge.

Okay but how did the first driver "lose control?" It was raining then, were they driving too fast for conditions? It's one thing to "lose control" due to a medical emergency or something like that, but if they "lost control" from being stupid, that's a different story!

Another story that makes the victim sound like the active agent. "A 67-year-old man was killed" yeah? by whom? Is it so hard to write "A driver crossed the centerline and killed a man on a motorcycle." And why mention that he was wearing his helmet when it had no bearing on the crash?

I hate how this headline is worded. It seems to insinuate that the bus driver is responsible, when the dashcam video seems to show that the SUV driver ran a red light and hit the bus after the bus driver swerved to avoid it. The headline should be "SUV driver runs red light, hits school bus."

A lot of half-finished stories today. Was hitting the house secondary to hitting the other vehicle? Was the bus driver behaving unsafely or were they simply dodging the other car? Is there a history of crashes, speeding, or similar issues on this road?

This is all very confusing. What do they mean the man had "fallen in the road?" Was he walking along Route 28? Had he fallen from one of the roads above Route 28? Did he just trip? Was he hit by a driver? What happened?

This is all just so dumb. Why is the school district forced to provide buses to kids who go to charter schools in other cities when it doesn't even provide buses to kids at their own public schools? And why are these parents sending their kids so far?

Duolingo gets me sometimes.

More good traffic calming news! Really feels like the city is taking advantage of the warm weather to do more than would be allowed by the typical construction season.

We have passing zones, like those on Rt 68, so people can get around farm vehicles, but people use them to pass any car not going as fast as they would like, and sometimes they cause a crash like this, and sometimes people die like this.

Crows Run Road was redesigned by PennDOT to look like a highway, and despite the 40 mph limit, people drive on it at highway speeds. This is the problem with having highway engineers in charge of your transportation department: they took a perfectly safe, narrow, rural road, and turned it into this.

I can aaalmost (not really) understand mistaking a walking path for a travel lane, but what did they think the gazebo was? A covered parking spot?

The most likely reason businesses would see a drop in revenue is because we can see which ones signed this injunction and I won't be spending money at (or taking my out-of-town relatives to) them ever again. But I will bike to places like Kaya and spend even more money just to spite the bastards.

Some of yinz really hate bike lanes, huh? That’s a clear takeaway from the lawsuit and subsequent injunction currently stalling the construction of a protected bike lane along Penn Avenue between 22nd and 31st streets... @colinbwilliams.com

"The driver of the vehicle that hit her" oh you mean the driver who killed her with their car? Why do all these news reports make the car the active agent and rarely the driver?

Hope for more details about this going forward. Many Homewood residents are suspicious of bike infrastructure as a harbinger for gentrification (who can blame them when you look at East Liberty), but they've had a couple of tragedies in the last few years that bike infra may have helped prevent.

I worry sometimes that the safety of our Amish neighbors isn't considered as a) they tend to make a habit of not complaining and b) they're not on social media. The buggies, scooters, and even groups of pedestrians are often on the edge of roads with oversized pickups driving 40-50 miles per hour.

Damn, I was kinda hoping to make a video about how closing this bridge to cars just turned it into a great pedestrian bridge. One resident of Polish Hill told me they actually appreciated the closure as it decreased cut-through traffic to Bigelow Blvd. I mean, are we suuure it's safe for cars?

"Apparently as a result of bad publicity and the involvement of elected officials, the proposed closure of bus stops at two stores at The Waterfront complex has been averted." - Lines like this are one of the many reasons I love Ed Blazina's reporting.

This is a step - hopefully one of many, taken hand-in-hand with the community - in the right direction in The Hill District. There are a lot of other sidewalks (some even city-owned) that need repair, and a lot of residents who can't afford to do it themselves, so grants like these are fundamental.

So proud of my former DOMI colleagues, who consistently show that they are able to do a lot with a little to make streets safer. My hope would be that this would be a starting off point, and that these improvements could be further hardened to be more effective, but that is in the Council's hands.

It's a small thing, but very typical that we would build a new $1.7-billion airport terminal (which I support!) in which every piece of the passenger experience is carefully designed and thought out... ...except for the people arriving by bus. Then it's "huh... yeah, they can come too."

I am amazed (maybe I shouldn't be) at yet another study indicating that over 90% or drivers exceed the speed limit, this time on Nobles Lane in Carrick. It's almost as if signs and enforcement do nothing and actual, solid infrastructure is needed to reduce speeds.

This crosswalk design will make Aspinwall safer. It's also specifically prohibited in the MUTCD, which is part of why the MUTCD is dumb. That provision of the MUTCD is also what USDOT and FLDOT are using to remove rainbow crosswalks in that state. So is USDOT gonna come for this one too? I doubt it.

Ms. Maiette made a poor decision on Highland Av that lead to her death. But hundreds of other drivers make poor decisions and only avoid similar outcomes due to sheer luck. PennDOT must make changes to Highland Av, especially to downhill lanes, to make poor decisions more difficult and less deadly.

This is another type of project that PRT may not have the funding to undertake going forward because of PA Senate Republican's intransigence, denying Pittsburgh a transportation asset, tourist draw, and a part of its history.

Another sad story that leaves a lot of questions to be answered. What were the pedestrian and the driver (because the driver hit her with the bus, the bus didn't hit her on its own) doing when the crash (not accident) occurred? Have similar crashes occurred here? What could be done to prevent it?

In case you were wondering what PRT won't be able to pay for because they had to move a bunch of money from capital projects to operating expenses, it's stuff like this bridge, which hasn't been updated since PRT acquired it in 1980.

This woman was working past retirement so she could use the money to help others. She was hit carrying supplies for her boss' birthday party. She sounds like an absolute angel. But the unsafe conditions that exist around Kennywood allowed a driver (not a "vehicle") to hit and kill Lorna Brennen.

Relative to all the other bad transit news this doesn't sound like much. I mean, my boy and I just sit outside the bus at Allegheny Station while the driver takes a break all the time. But it does sound like this wasn't considered earlier, which is disheartening.

Gotta love a plan that everyone is calling a "band-aid" or the "best bad solution." The religious opposition of Senate Republicans to spend any money to help anyone is antithetical to the idea of government itself, and isn't how the real world works.

Okay so I read five articles, the whole injunction, and parts of the fire code before realizing I wasn't a lawyer. But in this non-lawyer's opinion, the only count they have any evidence for is the fire code, which can be waived by the fire chief, who no one has actually talked to.

DOMI is sharing info about the Transit Stop Improvement Program. The map shows 6 locations, although it isn't clickable & the dots are at ints so you can't tell which stop it is. It also lists "DIY and makeshift benches" among the selection criteria, so you wood pallet carpenters get cracking.

The ADHD kicked in hard and I missed about 13 days of news. Prepare for some lukewarm takes. Although I will say, the longer time frame does allow for multiple news articles on a single topic, which is nice.

So these kids got bus service, paid for by the school district, to NOT attend the school district, while kids who DO attend the district all have to walk? I agree that PRT isn't a great solution for these kids (call your senators), and the roads aren't safe (we chose to build them that way).

Another story posted before it is fully baked. All we are told is that someone died, and all lanes have been reopened. Is this part of a pattern (yes, route 51 is the most dangerous road in the region)? What was the motorcycle rider doing? What was the truck driver doing? How could we prevent it?

This discussion is incredibly stupid. Why did the article continue after Todd Litman pointed out that you are ten times more likely to die in a car than on public transit? are those deaths are "routine," "the cost of doing business"? And these rare deaths allow conservatives to demonize cities?

Another one to keep an eye on. This is right in the heart of Butler's walkable core, although the fact that Main St is also Route 8, aka PennDOT-owned, isn't great.

More questions than answers, especially because Kiski police won't answer questions. Pegtown Ave is actually a pretty narrow, low-speed street, but it parallels Route 56, which PennDOT treats like a highway, and therefore drivers do too.

Just one more lane, bro...