Data shows Pittsburgh's commute not bad, but not great
We're about in the middle at #26. Rochester and Buffalo are #1 and 2; DC and NYC are at the bottom. Cleveland beat us (13), as did Portland (21).
It also mentions -- in the article's last line -- a new state website for alternative commuting, www.PACommutes.com, which includes bicycling and transit.
In this case I wouldn't feel so bad being beaten by Cleveland. If their commute time is low, I would guess it is because the entire region has been sliced and diced by massive multi-lane highways, the downtown barely has a heartbeat, and what is left of the city exists in mostly in cancerous exurban nodes around highway interchanges. Pgh has largely escaped that fate.
http://www.pacommutes.com/biking/statewide-bike-routes/
This is one of the three most-emphasized links for biking on that PACommutes site, but PA bike routes are useless for commuting. Maybe BikePGH should offer them a link to the online map as something actually useful for that purpose, or the new statewide group could help them out?
