Bridges (Was Article from the old Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph)

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> Scott Davis mentioned that there was a strictly enforced motor vehicle speed
> limit on the Smithfield Street span, something like 25 miles per hour. Were
> the streetcars restricted to that speed? Ken J.

	John and others mentioned that there was a time limit for taking the
trolleycars across the Smithfield St. Bridge.
	And sometime during the late 1950s, the water was high and a barge
scraped underneath the bridge.  It was a considerable time before this
was reported to authorities and I believe auto travel on the bridge was
suspended for a while and trolleycars had to literally crawl across!

James B. Holland

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