Downtown Pittsburgh and the East Busway.

Pittsburgh is an under-appreciated urbanist’s playground. Its collection of vintage walkable neighborhoods, unique transportation infrastructure, and its beautiful natural setting make it one of the most interesting cities in America. I was there two weekends ago to and took a slew of pictures, in two categories:

• Downtown and the neighborhoods
• Transportation

The transportation set is particularly interesting, because Pittsburgh has such a varied collection of transit infrastructure. They have vintage pre-war trolley lines that have been converted to modern light rail and run in a subway downtown, they have three major busways and some interesting on-street bus lanes, and they have two funicular incline railroads, providing transit up and down the steep slopes of Mount Washington.

I definitely recommend taking a look. If you prefer to view pictures directly in flickr, they are organized into six sets in BeyondDC’s Midwestern US photo collection.