the pittsburgh pedestrian experience

Once again, I missed the ~8am 41’s. I know, I just need to leave the house earlier. So, because I am impatient and didn’t want to be late AGAIN, I tried to find a back-up plan for when I miss the bus that would still get me to the office near on-time. This day, I decided to try the T. I grabbed the 47 to Overbrook, figuring that it would get me close to Brookline. Oh, boy, was that an adventure.

I got off the 47 at the South Bank stop. Where, you might ask, is South Bank? I was there and I’m still not sure. When taking the stairs down from the train platform, I ended up on what looked like a paved trail in the middle of the woods. I followed this “trail” through a right turn until it dead-ended at Route 51(I have now learned from Google Maps that the trail is actually Ansonia Place). I was then forced to walk along 51 to Whited, where i turned uphill. I walked uphill to Jacob Street, to that uphill to Brookline Boulevard, and walked that uphill to my office for a nearly 2 mile walk. Did I mention that it was uphill?

Luckily, my day improved. Later on I succesfully, and on time, grabbed a bus Downtown and then walked to my Zipcar on Duquesne’s campus in order to head out to Latrobe for Steelers training camp (!).  I again had no trouble with Zipcar and only had to extend my reservation this time for 0.5 hour due to construction-related traffic on Route 30.

Today’s tally:

Walked: 4 miles
Bussed: 3 trips
Carpooled: 0
Drove: ~70 Zipcar miles