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Description
On this episode of CityTalk, John interviews Dan Buczynski from the Department of Mobility & Infrastructure and Smyth Welton from the Department of Innovation & Performance.
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I
did
visit
him
not
only
when
I
was
little
but
I
used
to
I
used
to
work
for
a
software
company
down
on
railroad
street
and
so
at
lunch
time
I
would
just
walk
around
taking
photos
and
tons
of
times.
I
would
end
up
in
the
building,
saying
hi
and
taking
photos
of
all
the
signs
and
all
that
kind
of
stuff.
So
I
was
in
and
around
the
sign
shop.
Well
before
I
started
working
for
the
city
so.
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Yeah
he
well,
he
he
would
ask
me.
Oh
man,
well,
I've
been
there.
I
started
in
0-9,
so
probably
in
like
0-5,
he
started
asking
me
like.
Would
you
want
to
come
down
and
work
there,
and
at
the
time
I
was
just
starting
to
look
like
I'm
all
self-taught
as
far
as
graphic
design
goes,
so
I
was
learning
a
lot
where
I
was
and
I
was
like.
I
don't
really
want
to
stop
working
here.
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That
would
allow
me
to
get
a
little
bit
more
creative
and
the
longer
it
went
the
more
work
I
did,
the
more
freedom
I
got,
the
more
I
got
to
experiment,
and
I
actually
I
can
be
pretty
pretty
creative,
like
it's.
It's
a
good
mix
of
like
having
creative
stuff
to
do
and
then
like
when
you're
doing
street
signs
it's
just
kind
of
like
throw
the
headphones
on.
Listen
to
podcasts
and
just
you
know
let
the
muscle
memory
take
over
so.
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Well,
the
mayor,
the
way
that
I
remember
it
is
that
the
mayor
had
been
to
braddock
and
braddock
had
a
series
of
signs
that,
were
they
weren't,
like
the
ones
that
we
came
up
with,
were
they
were
more
resembling
regular
street
signs.
The
ones
in
braddock
were
were
just
like
metal
signs,
but
they
were
just
kind
of
like
positive
messages.
I
can't
remember
now
off
hand,
but
the
mayor
said
well
like
I
like
that.
Can
we
do
something
in
that
spirit?
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It
just
say
that
you
know
it
it'll
help
you
it's
the
only
time
I
ever
lied
on
a
on
a
resume
and
wouldn't
you
know
they
had
a
skills
test
for
for
excel
in
the,
and
I
was
like
oh
dude,
I
hate
you
so
I
got
by
by
the
skin
of
my
teeth,
but
it
was
the
last
time
I'd
ever
say.
I
know
something
that
I
didn't
did.
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I
really
didn't
put
a
lot
of
thought
into
it.
Actually,
I
I,
when
I
started
at
pitt,
I
went
to
pitt
because
they
had
a
good
program
going
with
the
filmmakers
pittsburgh
filmmakers
and
in
my
head
I
was
going
to
be
a
photojournalist
or
you
know
I
was
going
to
work
for
national
geographic,
some
kind
of
photography
I
got
talked
into.
I
took
a
creative
writing
class
and
the
professor
was
just
kind
of
like.
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Would
you
ever
consider
being
a
writer,
and
I
was
like
you're
saying
I'm
good
at
this
and
he's
like
yeah?
I
was
like
all
right.
Sorry,
that's
as
much
thought,
as
I
put
into
it
switch
course,
was
going
to
be
a
writer
and
then
there
was
a.
We
had
a
senior
seminar
in
fiction
where
they
said:
okay,
the
last
class
we're
going
to
go
over
like
really
good
jobs
for
writers
to
have
and
blah
blah
so
like
after
you're
graduating
we're
going
to
cover.
Where
do
you
go
from
here?
I'll,
never
forget.
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It
was
lee
shore
agency
in
melville,
so
I
would
get
these
manuscripts
like
novels
and
novellas
and,
like
literally,
I
think
I
got
five
dollars.
No,
it
was
five
dollars
for
a
short
story
and
maybe
seven
dollars
for
a
novel.
I
can't
remember,
but
I
would
spend
more
money
drinking
coffee
reading
these
things
and
you
know
making
all
my
notes
and
all
that
kind
of
stuff
then
I
would
make
so
that
that
went
nowhere
fast.
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You'll
have
to
go
around
them,
so
you're
now
going
in
opposing
traffic
to
get
around
these
trucks,
and
so
it
got
to
the
point
where
I
I
go
around
like
when,
when
it's
not
icy,
I
will
go
around
the
point
this,
but
now
that
that
switchback
opened
up
off
the
smithfield
street
bridge.
That
was
a
lifesaver,
so
now
nine
times
out
of
ten,
unless
the
mon
wharf
is
flooded
or
there's
ice,
I'll
go
down
that
switch
back
around
the
point
and
come
in
like
I
just
avoid
going
through
town
all
together,
but
yeah.
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I
really
I've
worked
most
of
my
adult
life
in
the
strip
district,
so
it's
almost
like
my
second
home
at
this
point
so
yeah,
and
it's
insane,
like
friends
of
mine,
that
I
used
to
work
with
at
the
software
company
they've
all
since
left
pittsburgh,
and
so
they
haven't
seen
the
strip
district
since
the
quark
factory
was
abandoned
and
so
like
way
back
0.7808
whenever
they
fixed
that,
I
would
send
them
pictures
like.
Can
you
believe
this
like
this
is
what
this
looks
like
now
and
then
every
once
in
a
while
they'll.
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Well,
it's
it's
almost
at
this
point.
It's
almost
two
side
shots
so
like
there's
the
computer
room
and
like
like
so
there's,
there's
one
room
that
has
like
the
computers
and
vinyl
cutters
and
a
vinyl
printer
and
these
big
work
tables,
and
that's
where
most
of
my
work
happens
now
like
when
I
first
started:
there's
a
there's:
a
silk
screening
operation
in
another
room,
that's
essentially
a
second
sign
shop,
and
so
with
covet
and
social
distancing
and
all
that
kind
of
stuff.
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My
co-worker
greg
and
I
kind
of
worked
out
where
he
he'll
take
care
of
like
so
when
we
make
stop
signs
like
like
300,
stop
signs
we'll
make
300.
You
know
all
like
huge
quantities
of
like
all
those
signs
that
go
out
in
mass,
so
he
he
generally
handles
that
whole
part
of
it.
What
I
do
mostly
these
days
is
like
the
one-off
signs
and
the
specialty
signs
so
like
I
I
do
most
of
the
street
name
blades.
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Yeah
there's
a
couple
like
one
of
the
really
fun
ones:
everybody
in
pittsburgh.
If
they
don't
know,
gus
and
yaya
should
know
gus
and
yaya
is
the
shaved
ice.
So
when
they
started
doing
work
on
that
bridge
and
closed
that
bridge,
his
business
was
suffering
and
because
it's
a
pittsburgh
institution
we
we
I
got
to
like.
I
got
the
dr
like
make
vector
art
of
his
cart
like
so
I
drew
his
cart
and
then
we
made
these
fun
signs
to
kind
of
direct
people
to
let
them
know
that
he's
still
there.
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Yeah
yeah
the
like
things
like
that,
but
so
that
was
a
lot
of
fun
and
the
canton
avenue
and
beach
view
is
the
steepest
street
in
the
continental
united
states,
so
congressman
coghill
wanted
to
do
something
to
like
some
kind
of
a
marker.
So
I
got
to
he's
like
do
you
know
anything
about
canton
avenue,
I'm
like
I
grew
up
in
vichy.
I
know
all
about
canada.
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So
I've
asked
the
people
this
question
before.
Whenever
the
other
kids
were
saying,
when
I
grow
up,
I'm
going
to
be
a
fireman
and
I'm
going
to
be
a
policeman,
I'm
going
to
be
a
baseball
player.
Were
you
did
you
know
you're
going
to
be
a
web
designer
or
was
that
the
furthest?
You
didn't
even
know
what
that
was?
Maybe.