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In the 1940s and 1950s, mass transit in Allegheny County was in jeopardy because of 40 private transit companies and increased competition from cars. The Conference released a report in 1951 calling for all local transit lines to be under one authority. Public suspicions and private interests delayed
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The city's most visible problem in the first half of the 20th century was air pollution. The Conference brokered an agreement for phased-in implementation of smoke control that became city policy. After the Conference voiced its concern for legal loopholes to the state legislature in
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The clearer skies over the city both attracted new business and encouraged local corporations to retain and expand their Pittsburgh headquarters. The pollution-control program explicitly influenced the decision of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to invest in planning the
304:. A related effort was Strategy 21 that enabled public and private agencies in Allegheny County to speak with one voice when requesting state funds. Strategy 21 not only resulted in projects that ranged from the new 286:
the measure until service cutbacks and strikes rekindled the idea in 1957. The Conference was instrumental in building public and private support. In 1959, legislation was passed to create the
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and Allegheny County Commissioner John Kane were early recruits. The Allegheny Conference was officially established in 1944.
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It grew from efforts in the 1940s to coordinate improvements to regional transportation and the local environment. During
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The Conference also led the transformation of the 14-block Penn-Liberty Corridor into the
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In 2001, the Conference entered into a strategic affiliation with the
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Allegheny Conference on Community Development (2016).
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Allegheny Conference is a longtime partner with the
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