[PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge

[Bob Rathke]

Many people in Pittsburgh have never left "their" side of the river, let
alone travel out of the state.  So, some people on the South Side would
never know that Brady Street was on the other end of the South 22nd St.
Bridge :-)

Bob 3/4/05

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 94 Sharpsburg - 62nd Street Bridge


> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Swindler wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Interesting.  I never heard it referred to as the 22nd St. bridge, but
then
> > I lived in the East End.  I would tend to link a numbered street with
the
> > strip district and routes 87 and 88.
>
> South 22nd st, but that's commonly left out. Remember the 10th st bridge
> goes from 2nd Avenue at the Armstrong Tunnels to the South Side. Really it
> is the south 10th St bridge. Some old maps still call the new bridge the
> 22nd St Bridge. Of course, 22nd St is *next to* the bridge, but...
>
>