Route of Penn-Lincoln Parkway in Saline Valley

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Route of Penn-Lincoln Parkway in Saline Valley
  • Title
  • Route of Penn-Lincoln Parkway in Saline Valley
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F03.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F03.I02
  • Description
  • Looking east down the Saline Valley. In 1939, New York City traffic planner and parks superintendent, Robert Moses, submitted a plan for a comprehensive highway system around and through Pittsburgh. Principle designer for the project was Michael Baker, Jr., Inc. The contracts for the Pitt Parkway, estimated at $20 million for 9.5 miles, were awarded in 1943 but work was postponed until after the war. Ground was broken on July 25, 1946. The highway was named the Penn-Lincoln Parkway, known locally as Parkway East, because it would carry traffic from US22 (William Penn Highway) and US30 (Lincoln Highway). George S. Richardson designed the bridges, which on this wide roadway are in many cases double bridges, side by side in each instance rather that the single structure.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Saline Valley (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Parkway East.
  • 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
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