Letter to the editor: Eliminating Pittsburgh's traffic nightmares

I submit an open letter to the “powers that be” — the makers, the shakers, the deep-pocketed crowd and whomever.

Will you “sled dogs” start pulling in one direction and help alleviate some of Pittsburgh’s traffic nightmares? We need the rail line that runs into Pittsburgh on the east side of the Allegheny River to function.

With some park-and-ride areas from New Kensington through Oakmont, Verona, etc., PennDOT could tear up Route 28 all it wants to. This idea has been around for quite a while. It would be a bountiful blessing on us all, a bit of civilization creeping in.

Please, get off your sorry butts and make this happen.

Tom Kerek

Oakmont