Pittsburgh asks residents and workers how safe its streets feel
Pittsburgh has opened a survey through Aug. 7 asking residents and workers how they travel, where they feel unsafe, and what street changes to prioritize.
Pittsburgh is asking residents and workers to weigh in on how safe and usable its streets feel, opening a citywide survey that runs through Aug. 7 and is meant to help guide future transportation decisions.
The city’s Department of Mobility & Infrastructure says the survey is aimed at people who live or work in Pittsburgh. It asks about how people get around, where they feel unsafe, and which transportation changes should come first. City officials say the responses will feed into future policy, planning, and investment decisions.
What the city wants to learn
According to the city’s announcement and participation page, the survey is meant to capture how people experience Pittsburgh’s streets day to day. That includes mobility habits, safety perceptions, and priorities for street improvements.
The city says the feedback will help shape future work tied to mobility, traffic calming, Complete Streets, and Vision Zero. For residents, that means the survey could influence where officials focus on slower speeds, safer crossings, sidewalk or street redesigns, and other changes intended to reduce crashes and make travel easier.
This is not a completed project list or a vote on specific street upgrades. It is an input process, and the city is still collecting responses before it uses the results in later planning.
Who can take it
The city says the survey is open to people who live or work in Pittsburgh. That makes it broader than a neighborhood-only questionnaire and more useful for capturing how commuters, workers, and residents experience the same corridors differently.
That matters in a city where a lot of the transportation debate centers on the practical details of everyday travel: whether intersections feel safe to cross, whether traffic moves predictably, and whether a street works well for drivers, walkers, transit riders, and people on bikes.
Why it matters now
Pittsburgh has made street safety and mobility a recurring policy issue in recent years, and this survey is one way officials are trying to gather direct public feedback before making future decisions. Independent local coverage from WESA and WPXI framed the effort as part of the city’s broader planning work and noted its connection to future policy and investment choices.
The city says it expects to use the results in a State of Mobility report this fall. That gives the survey a clear timeline: the city wants responses now, and it plans to turn that input into a broader look at transportation conditions later this year.
For residents, the immediate takeaway is simple. If you have opinions about unsafe crossings, speeding, bike lanes, traffic calming, transit access, or which streets feel easiest or hardest to use, this is one of the more direct ways to put that on record before the city finalizes its next round of planning priorities.
The survey remains open through Aug. 7, giving Pittsburghers and people who work in the city a chance to shape how officials think about mobility and street safety before the fall report is released.
