Lockwood v. City of Pittsburgh

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We must determine whether a claim alleging that the City of Pittsburgh was negligent in failing to install a guardrail along a curve in the road where an accident occurred falls within the streets exception to governmental immunity set forth in the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 8542(b)(6). In Dean v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, 561 Pa. 503, 751 A.2d 1130 (2000) also decided today, we held that the failure to erect a guardrail is not a “dangerous condition of Commonwealth realty” for purposes of the real estate…