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Fort Duquesne Bridge

1969

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Fort Duquesne Bridge
  • Title
  • Fort Duquesne Bridge
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F30.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F30.I01
  • Description
  • The Fort Duquesne Bridge, spanning the Allegheny River, currently carries Interstate 279. The steel bowstring arch, double-deck bridge, sometimes known as “The Bridge To Nowhere,” opened to traffic on October 17, 1969. The main span was completed in 1963, but because of difficulties in securing a site to place the bridge’s northern ramps, traffic was not able to use these ramps until 1969. The northeastern section continued to hang in mid-air until its connection with the North Shore Expressway as part of the East Street Valley Expressway project in 1986. In the background is Three Rivers Stadium, still under construction, which opened in May 1970.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Duquesne Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Bridges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Stadiums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Bridge construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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