City Enters Into Agreement With URA

Pittsburgh City Council Today agreed to a cooperation agreement with the URA to apply for a $500,000 grant. The grant would help fund a test track project by Bombardier Transportation Holdings. The test track would be 3/4 of a mile long and would help the company develop more efficient automatic people movers similar to the people movers at Pittsburgh International Airport. The test track will be developed at an old steel coke plant site in Hazelwood.