Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh's Strip District-Hill District incline part of feasibility study (Nov. 25, 2011)

By this time next year, Pittsburgh city planners will know the feasibility of reviving an incline that once ran between the Strip District and the Hill District.

The link is among several proposals under consideration in a six-month-long Strip District Transportation Study scheduled to kick off by March, said Patrick Roberts, principal transportation planner with the city.

According to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the former Penn Avenue Incline “could be the most massive incline ever constructed.”

It operated for a 70-year stretch before it was torn down in 1953, and hauled both coal and people, launching from a resort and casino on the Hill side and docking at 17th Street and Penn Avenue in the Strip.

In the late 1800s, Pittsburgh had more than a dozen inclines; only two remain.

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