Twenty Years

It was 1990 when I found myself in the right place at the right time to join up with visionaries to advance the idea of riverfront trails and river access. In the ensuing twenty years I have been to just about every foot of Riverfront in the City.

Now as I grow older...but not old...I thought I would take 2011 to methodically revisit those Rivers with wiser eyes. I will walk every foot of the City Riverfront (with a few exceptions to avoid imprudent trespass) and record what I see, who I meet, what I have learned, and what I think. Ideally this will generate some sort of dialogue in the virtual world and, eventually, in the real world.

In the process I hope to teach something of interest, gain a little confidence, and mature my insight. I hope you will join me every so often.

I start at the first municipal boundary created for Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River.

Underneath the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge, formerly the site of the Pennsylvania Canal Aqueduct, and near the site where Meriweather Lewis launched his voyage across the West in 1803.