Land for Sidewalk on the East Side of Brady Street

Although a sidewalk down Brady Street could be built by extending the bottom of the existing sidewalk, a bicycle path would be better built by curving the sidewalk earlier underneath the bridge supports. As shown below, there is enough land for a ten foot wide path. Following this route, the bridge would be more than nine feet above the path.

What is not clear from the 1951 drawings for the relocation of Brady Street is if the land under these bridge abutments is property of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), or the City of Pittsburgh. Who controls this land is an issue that will need to be resolved for this path to be built.