[PRCo] Re: Penn Avenue - Point Park

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Clearly, the wooden ramp to the Manchester Bridge is gone in this view, and
it is Penn Avenue extension that motorists are using to reach it.

The one thing I've not heard expressed about the matter of trolleys on the
Fort Pitt Bridge is that Federal policy did not allow tracks on Interstate
Highways.  Pittsburgh Railways agreed in 1949 not to put tracks there.  I
think all the later discussions are snake oil, even if they said they wanted
to change their mind.  It was a money-losing division...they were seeing how
much they could get from others to abandon it.  They got the money to buy
the replacement buses, and that may have been a good deal. 

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Barry,
Matthew R
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:03 PM
To: 'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'
Subject: [PRCo] Penn Avenue - Point Park

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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