The City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) will begin working on the Squirrel Hill East-West Connector project on November 8, 2021, with pavement markings and construction of two speed humps on Bartlett Street between Murdoch Street and Serpentine Drive and is expected to last up to two weeks, weather permitting. Intermittently, traffic will be detoured to avoid construction on this segment of Bartlett Street. The detour will be Hobart Street to Beacon Street to Murdoch Street.
This project is part of DOMI’s Move Forward program, which aims to implement DOMI’s Bike+ Plan. The corridor will better connect Schenley Park, including the recently reopened Serpentine Drive, to Frick Park and the bike lanes on Beechwood Boulevard, while also connecting to existing bike lanes on Wightman Street. Traffic calming throughout the corridor and a contra-flow bike lane from Murdoch Street to Shady Avenue will create comfortable, bi-directional travel for cyclists while maintaining existing, legal parking spaces and all existing motor vehicle access.