[PRCo] Penn Avenue - Point Park

[Barry, Matthew R]

Does anyone remember how one could access the Manchester Bridge after the Point Bridge was closed?   I recall being a passenger in an automobile on the 10th street bypass, and just before one would go forward to the ramp to the Ft. Pitt Bridge, there was a left hand turn you could make that would lead you to the Manchester Bridge.   I think - but again cannot recall - that it would lead you up to Commonwealth Place, where you would make a right down a roadway, then right up the ramp to the Manchester.    Attached is a photo of the Point Park Area from 1969.   I think - but am not sure - that the roadway in the left foreground is where Penn Avenue used to be.     If that is what used to be Penn, then all that fuss about Point Park not being able to be completed if the West End streetcar lines continued to use the Point Bridge, was not quite valid at the time.
Matt





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