In the fall we wrote two blogs (here and here) about the City of Pittsburgh’s creation of a new Department of Mobility and Infrastructure.  The first blog noted that “Currently in the Department of Public Works there is a Bureau of Transportation and Engineering, and in that Bureau the Division of Engineering and the Division of Traffic Operations have responsibilities that, on paper, read awfully close to what the mission of the proposed new Department would be”.

That turned out to be the case, and now two pending ordinances (here and here) would amend the City Code to remove several of the functions from the Director of Public Works under 119:02 of the Code related to “management, planning, engineering, and traffic/transportation planning” and inserts a new section 118 into the code for the new department, where the director would be responsible for activities related to transportation.  This would include development of plans, maps, supervision of transportation projects, etc.