Bridges (Was Article from the old Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph)

[Kenneth Josephson]

I can't even imagine the resulting mess if the Smithfield Street Bridge had to be
closed for any length of time between 1969 and 1984. Where would passengers have to
transfer to buses for downtown connections? At Carson Street? At SHJ? Where would
PAT have gotten extra buses? Sheesh! Talk about putting all your eggs in one
basket! Ken J.

Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>         Now this is the first that I have heard this - I was floating around
> the South Pacific with Uncle Sam's Canoe Club at this time!  I am sure
> it has been done other times and have wondered why they didn't do that
> reroute when the barge had damaged the understructure of the bridge -
> actually, the tug maneuvering the barge.