<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=149060.msg6773891#msg6773891">Quote from: Mossberg on 17-08-2012, 22:38:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">What would be the conditions of highways 279 and 579 be like? I'm just trying to figure out the route I'm going to have him take.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>279? *twitch* Oh God, no! Not the Parkway! *twitch*<br/><br/>On a normal unapocalyptic day, the parkway is hell at rush hour. If I had to guess what would happen to the Parkway in a zombie apocalypse, I think initially you'd see quite a few zombies enjoying their tasty humans trapped in pretty metal boxes. The only way to take the parkway into or out of the city is through the tunnels. You'd probably do best to not try to get to it until past the tunnels. I don't imagine one would brave those mile long catacombs 14 months into the apocalypse.<br/><br/>Thing about the parkway is you can go either direction on it to try to get out of the city, so I'm convinced the traffic jams would persist on both sides due to the cyclical nature of the roads in the area.<br/><br/>I'd say these days, it looks a lot like a cross between a junkyard and a parking lot. I'd probably say the same for 579. It's 4-6 lanes packed with busted out cars and the part that you'd be traveling is overlooked by the cliffs of the bluff. One thing I'll say about Pittsburgh: sometimes when someone tells you that you can't get there from here, he's correct. Though streets on a map sometimes look like they're right next to each other, a lot of those streets are separated by downright obscene hillsides. Well I kinda went off on a rant there... Did I answer the question, or were you looking for something else?