PITTSBURGH —

Pittsburgh is nationally known for its roughly 800 sets of city steps, many of them old and crumbling.

The city is spending millions of dollars on rehabbing steps. Advertisement

But Action News Investigates has learned that some of the money is going to steps that hardly anyone uses.

Before he left his management job with the city, Tom Joyce oversaw the design of the new steps at Stanton and McCandless avenues in Stanton Heights.

“Looks pretty. I mean, I love the steps because they’re my design,” Joyce said.

But all along, he questioned why the city was spending $1.2 million on those steps.

“$1.2 million and nobody uses them. It's a white elephant,” Joyce said. “You can stay here all day, and you won't see anybody walking down the steps."

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