Article from the old Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph

[brathke at juno.com]

Wasn't one of Pittsburgh's bridges at the Point removed and relocacted 
downriver at another, lighter traffic location?

Bob 9/22

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:57:36 -0400 (EDT) Derrick J Brashear
<shadow at dementia.org> writes:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I know it was removed in 1970. I wondered , too, why a 
> "condemned"
> > bridge remained for eleven years after it was closed. More than 
> one person
> > had mentioned the bridge was unsafe. If this was a myth, I don't 
> know how it
> > was started. The bridge wasn't that old by "bridge standards" and 
> it
> > appeared to be a substantial structure. Ken J.
> 
> The 15th St. bridge in McKeesport remained for years after being
> condemned (yes the one the short line up the hill into Port Vue 
> used)
> before being blown up and replaced with a standard boring
> steel-beams-and-concrete-deck span. There's a difference between 
> "can
> support its weight" and "can support traffic" though I regularly 
> walked
> the 15th St span while it was closed, as did other people as 
> evidenced by
> footprints in the snow. 
> 
> On the other hand this is probably not pertinent to the Point 
> Bridge, or
> probably wasn't in 1959 at least.
> 
> -D
> 
> 

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