Introduction
Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and The Down Town District
Frederick Law Olmsted report to The Pittsburgh Civic Commission, 1910
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But in many cases there is a crying need for the improvement already, or it is of such a nature that any delay is apt to involve a considerable increase in the cost and the difficulty of carrying it out.
Suggestive treatment of street junctions in outlying districts, Stuttgart
The most urgent general improvement of this sort is the establishment of new building lines on all main thoroughfares which it is proposed to widen; this is order to anticipate, as far as possible, the construction of new and costly buildings on the present street lines.
Of the specific recommendations made in this report it seems advisable to give the earliest attention to the following:
In the Down Town District
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10 -- The cutting of the Hump and the widening of certain streets in the Hump District as recommended
11 -- The extension of Grant Boulevard to Webster Avenue
11 -- The acquisition of land required for the proposed Civic Center
17 -- The widening of Diamond Street
17 -- The widening of Market Street
18 -- The relocation of the Market
7 -- The new connection between Penn and Liberty Avenues at Eleventh Street
10 -- The elimination of the Try Street grade crossing
49 -- The proposed bridge and tunnel to the South Hills
Along Outlying Thoroughfares
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1 : 56 -- Sixteenth Street bridge
2 : 57 -- Twenty-eighth Street grade crossings
3 : 57 -- Thirty-third Street improvement
6 : 59 -- Forty-third Street bridge
9 : 59 -- *Haights Run bridge
18 : 64 -- Hazelwood grade crossing
20 : 65 -- *Baum Street improvement
21 : 65 -- Center Avenue improvement
22 : 65 -- *Hamilton Avenue extension and connection with Kelly Street
*Already provided for, wholly or in part, in the current bond issue.
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