View Down Forbes Avenue

Traveling west on Forbes Avenue, the wide and clear sidewalk continues, connecting to Brady Street about 1200 feet below. This sidewalk has been recently installed with a modern cement barrier and a new metal fence. Unfortunately, this sidewalk is not wide enough to fall under the City of Pittsburgh’s specification for a bicycle path. It would be possible to widen this path by extending the sidewalk over the Rock Alley slope, although the width of the sidewalk is the least significant of the issues that need to be addressed for this path to be complete.

The wooded area on the left of this picture is the Rock Alley slope. The location of the crosswalk in this picture is approximately in the historic location of Maurice Street, which went down the slope and connected with the Rock Alley tunnel that passes under Interstate 376.