Conduct a public awareness campaign to share available Department of Public Works web tools, including:

For residents:

The “Who Owns My Infrastructure?” tool that maps roads and bridges across the county with information about who residents can call with maintenance issues.

For municipalities and townships:

The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) website including information about funding opportunities for infrastructure investments including roads, bridge, traffic signal improvements, and trails.

  Completed

The Department of Public Works created a 28-page guide that provides a comprehensive overview of the infrastructure services and resources offered by the department. It contains clickable links so that residents can easily access the help they need. The guide was posted on the county’s website, shared on the county’s social media channels, and emailed to municipal administrators.

Address opportunities for PRT service expansion and consider incorporating this into PRT’s Bus Line Redesign process

PRT will address opportunities for service expansion and consider incorporating this into PRT’s Bus Line Redesign process so that when future funding opportunities arise, PRT will have an expanded service plan ready to implement.

In Progress

The Bus Line Redesign team has completed the Draft 1.0 engagement phase, which incorporated a “+20%” scenario. This is a result of PRT experiencing a significant increase in the level of interaction, involvement, and commitment from stakeholders, residents, and riders alike.

Unfortunately, PRT had to shift to focus in the beginning of 2025 to address the state funding crisis and avoid service reductions and the Bus Line Redesign project has been placed on a temporary hold. However, the public engagement for the initial Draft 1.0 project was substantial and productive, so the team is optimistic about resuming the project and utilizing the gathered insights and feedback.

Expand PRT language accessibility

For the first time in Allegheny County history, riders can receive updates about public transit in all major languages spoken in Allegheny County.

In Progress

PRT’s Language Accessibility Plan was approved by the PRT Board as part of the Title VI Program, which is being submitted to the FTA as part of the required Triennial Title VI Program submission.

PRT continues to seek and implement opportunities to expand language access throughout its system, even if not required by law. PRT intends to add a consultant agreement in 2025 to provide language interpretation and translation services, and expand language accessibility.

Keep residents safe on county-owned streets by investing in improvements to make streets safe for all users by:

• Incorporating Complete Streets as part of capital improvement project designs to make streets safe for all users by identifying multi-modal enhancements and increasing investment in pedestrian and cycling infrastructure
• Collaborating with PRT to assist with priority projects planned on county roadways
• Analyzing speed, crash, and traffic volume data to proactively address potential safety issues and explore installing traffic-reducing measures

In Progress

Complete Streets

In 2025, Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED) developed the Complete Streets Ordinance and allocated resources as part of the Active Allegheny Grant Program. Allegheny Together also provides resources for safe street design.

In late 2025, a comprehensive Complete Streets plan for Allegheny County that will be presented to County Council. It will provide a clear, extensive plan for the county regarding pedestrian and bike infrastructure, other forms of micro-mobility, and bus lanes. It will also help link the patchwork of municipal bike and bus lanes and sidewalks to ease county and municipal difficulties in coordinating pedestrian and bike improvements.

PRT Partnership

The Department of Public Works (DPW) is partnering with ACED, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC), PennDOT, and the City of Pittsburgh on a roadway safety initiative called Vision Zero. It incorporates proactive, preventative improvements to roadway design and focuses on enhancing safety for all road users. The goal is the elimination of all fatal and serious injury traffic crashes within the county.

Speed, Crash, and Traffic Volume Data Analysis

In 2024, the Allegheny County Department Public Works began using an innovative application called Urban SDK, which provides vital speed and traffic volume data to the department’s traffic engineers and enables:

• Quicker, more effective response to speeding complaints
• Proactive opportunities to identify and mitigate roadway safety issues
• Measurement of the effectiveness of attempted traffic-calming efforts

On a monthly basis, Urban SDK collects traffic data aggregated from GPS and other sensors found in most newer vehicle models. This is a significant advantage over traditional means of collecting traffic data, which are time-consuming and expensive, and often requiring equipment to be physically placed at a specific location.

Pavement Surface Treatments
High-friction surface treatment is a pavement overlay that increases friction using aggregate. It has been found to dramatically reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities at sharp curves and where vehicles often speed and need to decelerate quickly. The Department of Public Works (DPW) is coordinating with PennDOT to install high-friction surface treatment on sections of:

• • Rankin Bridge
  • Bower Hill Road
  • McKees Rocks Road
  • Ridge Road
  • West Run Road

Traffic Reconfigurations
DPW completed 1,221 service requests in 2024 to help ensure the safety of county-owned roads, including 67 service requests related to improvements of road signs, pavement markings, and traffic alleviation.

Following the traffic death of a pedestrian on county-owned Highland Road, DPW coordinated with local elected officials and McCandless administrators and police officers in hopes of improving roadway safety. Two intersections were converted into four-way stops and numerous sign and pavement markings were added.

After receiving complaints about speeding on a stretch of county-owned James Street near Boone Drive/Harper Drive, DPW hired a consultant to review the road’s safety. This resulted in a permanent closure of a lane of traffic using delineators and pavement markings to alleviate traffic. The department also made numerous road sign and pavement marking upgrades.

Armstrong Tunnel Rehabilitation Project
The Armstrong Tunnel Rehabilitation project in downtown Pittsburgh incorporates many safety improvements for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike, including:

• • Replacing ceramic tile liner on the tunnel walls with fireproof panels
  • Fire detection and suppression systems upgrades
  • Replaced existing lighting with much brighter LED fixtures
  • Installing a CCTV monitoring system
  • Widening the pedestrian sidewalk on the outbound side for ADA compliance from 3’9″→ 6’3″
  • Reconfiguring lanes to slow traffic and improve safety

Bridge Replacement and Preservation
DPW has dramatically reduced its number of poor-rated bridges over the past decade, including replacing three such bridges in 2024. Less than 6% of county-owned bridges that are eight feet or longer remain in poor condition; one which will be replaced this year. Construction on 11 other poor-rated bridges is expected to occur in 2026 and 2027. In conjunction with bridge replacement projects, there are significant efforts to keep bridges from ever reaching poor condition, including preservation and rehabilitation projects to extend the life of the bridges by preventing, delaying, or reducing deterioration.