Editorial: Traffic calming has been a Gainey success, but can the city afford to keep it going?

One of the true success stories for Pittsburgh under Ed Gainey’s administration has been the expansion of inexpensive but effective traffic calming measures around the city. These projects, which are sometimes as simple as painting lines on the street in a different configuration, have a demonstrated track record of slowing speeding vehicles, thereby making city streets safer for all — and especially those on foot, bike, scooter and so on.

These projects are also one of the few aspects of city government that are reasonably administratively efficient. The program, administered by the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI), is inexpensive to run. It also incorporates resident input: On the city’s website, a user-friendly interactive map allows people to nominate street seg