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Article: Road to VA hospital on Highland Drive a rough stretch
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- May 8, 2008
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Patients must endure a bumpy ride to reach the Veterans Affairs
hospital in Lincoln-Lemington.
A pothole-laden three-quarter-mile stretch of Highland Drive is
the only way about 100,000 outpatient veterans and their relatives
can travel to the hospital and nearby senior care facility each
year, said Pittsburgh Councilman Patrick Dowd, who is having trouble
persuading city officials to repave the road this summer.
"These are people who served us, and we need to make sure we're
serving them," Dowd said.
Dowd said Public Works Director Guy Costa told him that finding
the roughly $250,000 needed to pave the road is not a priority
because it is used mainly by people who don't live in Pittsburgh.
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