Pittsburgh Public Works removed a homeless encampment that had sprung up outside the Second Avenue Commons shelter Downtown.
After posting warnings to those camping outside the shelter, Public Works on Thursday cleared all the bedding and debris, cleaning up the right-of-way and making it passable.
“The structures that were being built on the sidewalks were blocking mobility, which is not permitted anywhere in the city of Pittsburgh on sidewalks. So the signs were posted, I believe, about a week and a half, two weeks ago, to get this cleaned up, so today we just removed anything that was left behind,” said Ben Talik, the program manager of Reaching Out On The Streets, or ROOTS…