The Serpentine Road: Seven Years, Then and Now

Serpentine Drive in Schenley Park, today, 23 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 23 July 2026: A look back 7 years, 2019-2026 Seven years ago this month I was walking through Schenley Park to the Squirrel Hill business district when my pedestrian plans were detoured because a huge paving truck had fallen off the Serpentine Road(**) and overturned on the hillside. Everything was blocked off. The presence of a huge paving truck in early July was normal. The City typically repaved the Serpentine just ahead of the Vintage Grand Prix (VGP) that uses this route in Schenley Park. But something had gone radically wrong. Photo of the accident from Pittsburgh Public Safety Dept, 10 July 2019 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The driver of a tri-axle truck has been rescued after the vehicle plunged over a hillside late Wednesday morning [July 10, 2019] in Squirrel Hill. The truck crashed around 10:45 a.m. at the intersection of Serpentine Drive and Bartlett Street, and dropped about 50 feet over a hillside. It…