[PRCo] HELP HELP HELP..... INFO NEEDED

[Schneider Fred]

I'VE TRIED GOOGLING THE ANSWER TO THIS AND CANNOT FIND IT.....

Perhaps one of you knows the answer.

You probably all know about the cutting of the hump in Pittsburgh in  
1912-1913 when an entire hill around Grant and 5th Avenue was  
removed.   For those of you unfamiliar, go there today and you can  
see buildings where you enter through what had been the basement  
basement and the fancy columns that should be on the first floor are  
now on the second floor.

But there appear to have been some lesser street projects to get some  
streets along the rivers out of the flood stages.   Around 1910, 1911  
it appears that some streets on the North Side, i.e. General Robinson  
and Lacock and perhaps Shore Road were raised to keep them out of  
routine high water.   Duquesne Way was apparently also raised,  
perhaps in several different projects.  Today it is many feet above  
the river but it apparently wasn't in 1910.   Water Street on the  
Monongahela side was also raised.

If anyone has any articles on the subject of raising these streets,   
I would like to see them.

I'm also curious about more detailed information on when the old 6th,  
7th and 9th Street bridges were closed and the Three Sisters Bridges  
were opened than appears in the Bridges and tunnels webside.   It  
only gives general information, i.e. 1926-1928.   That is  
insufficient to correlate with northside car route changes in the  
route cards.

Professor Fred