Pittsburgh, PA – September 9, 2014 – Pitts­burgh’s hills, val­leys and riv­ers make for a beau­ti­ful land­scape. They also make it a chal­lenge when de­sign­ing in­fra­struc­ture and plan­ning trans­por­ta­tion, es­pe­cially bi­cy­cling. … Dru van Hen­gel, a trans­por­ta­tion pro­fes­sional from Port­land, OR, ar­rived Mon­day in Pitts­burgh with the rid­ers from Wash­ing­ton. She ex­pe­ri­enced some of the dif­fi­cul­ties the re­gion’s ter­rain causes. …

“I think peo­ple will be say­ing ‘If Pitts­burgh can do it, we can do it. Our chal­lenges are less,’ ” she said. “I re­ally be­lieve that.”

Read more (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Andrew Goldstein)