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Frederick Law
Olmsted
report to the
Pittsburgh Civic Commission
"Pittsburgh:
Main Thoroughfares and The
Down Town District"
1910
00 Cover Page
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04 Parks and
Recreation
Facilities
06 Index
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Introduction Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and The Down Town District Frederick Law Olmsted report to The Pittsburgh Civic Commission, 1910
SECTION : PAGE 24 : 66 -- Larimer Avenue extension 33 : 71 -- Batavia Street 34 : 71 -- Wilkinsburg grade crossings 35 : 71 -- Wilkinsburg-Edgewood connection 38 : 72 -- Rankin improvement 51 : 75 -- Duquesne bridge 52 : 75 -- California Avenue and Brighton Road extension 56 : 77 -- Lowry's Lane 57 : 77 -- East Ohio Street paving 60 : 78 -- Sycamore Street grade crossing and Bridge Street improvement in Etna 61 : 79 -- Allegheny River Boulevard as far as Main Street connection 62 : 79 -- Main Street grade crossing in Sharpsburg 64b : 80 -- Carson Street 65 : 80 -- Chartiers Avenue grade crossing 69 : 81 -- Crafton-Carnegie connection 72a : 82 -- Washington Avenue improvement 73a : 83 -- Thoroughfare to Beechview 75 : 84 -- Carrick connection from South Hills tunnel, probably Climax Street route 80 : 86 -- Twenty-second Street bridge approach -- South Side In the following cases the actual improvements are not so urgent, but the new street locations should be established before expensive developments, which are apt to occur at any time, shall interpose serious new difficulties in the way of the proposed improvements: SECTION : PAGE 5 : 58 -- Penn-Liberty connection at Howley Street 12 : 61 -- Fifth Avenue - Center Avenue connection at Soho 13 : 62 -- Ellsworth Avenue extension 39 : 72 -- Forbes Street extension 59 : 78 -- Etna improvement For other specific thoroughfare improvements recommended in this report there appear to be no very urgent demands at present. Generally speaking they should be carried out only as some special opportunity offers, or in anticipation of some obstructing development which cannot now be foreseen, or as a growing traffic shall demand. But a thing of greater consequence than any one of these specific improvements, a thing of vital import to every taxpaying citizen of the present and future City, is the making of comprehensive and accurate topographical maps. It is only on the basis
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