WYEP Summer Music Festival & OpenStreetsPGH June 2022
The last weekend of June was also the first official weekend of Summer, and it was a busy one in Pittsburgh. On Saturday I headed into Oakland for the WYEP Summer Music Festival.
The concert was held in Schenley Plaza. It was nearly 90 degrees fahrenheit with lots of sun. When I arrived most of the shaded areas on the edges of the plaza were occupied, so I situated myself in a sunny spot in the grass.
The infrastructure and trailers behind the stage occupied Schenley Drive.
One of the event sponsors was Pittsburgh Regional Transit, the newly-rebranded name for Pittsburgh Port Authority. Their booth with free PRT hats was very popular.
They also had one of the newly-rebranded buses on site for viewing.
The streets of Oakland had responses to the recent Supreme Court ruling.
Sunday featured the second OpenStreets event of the summer. This course ran from Market Square down through the Strip District and Lawrenceville. I rode across the Hot Metal Bridge to the northern side of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail and took it to Downtown, riding surface streets to the Square.
The crossing from Market Square to Penn Ave was regulated by event volunteers, just as last month.
From Downtown the course continued up through the Strip District.
People were still doing their Sunday morning shopping, frequently having to traverse the gauntlet of OpenStreets riders to cross the street.
Even with the Sunday shoppers the Strip District never felt as congested as South Side did last month.
One of the dismount zones was demarcated by a pair of giant purple hands.
As with previous events there was also live music throughout the course.
Helpful chalk writing alerted riders to road hazards as well as dismount zones.
The course went past Allegheny Cemetery.
The Lawrenceville Doughboy looked over the proceedings.
My ride along Butler St was invigorating not only for building the speed that I did but also for gauging what had changed and what had stayed the same.